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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

    Detail of Architecture from 'The School of Athens'

    c.1853-76

    Albumen print | RCIN 852567

    A photograph of a drawing now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no.WA1846.280). The drawing, which Ruland (1876) attributed to Raphael, resembles the architecture of the left half of 'The School of Athens' but with significant differences.
    • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

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