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    AFTER A WORK ATTRIBUTED TO STEFANO DELLA BELLA (1610-64)

    Figures from Raphael's School of Athens

    c.1853-76

    Albumen print | 33.3 x 22.1 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852542

    A photograph of a drawing by Stefano della Bella now in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle (RCIN 904548). The drawing reproduces a group of figures from the left hand side of Raphael's School of Athens, painted in c.1509-10 in the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican.

    • Creator(s)

      After a work attributed to Stefano della Bella (1610-64) (artist)

      After a work copying Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)

    • 33.3 x 22.1 cm (sheet of paper)

    • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

    • Subject(s)
      • Philosophy & Psychology
        • Philosophers
      Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • photographs
    • Bibliographic reference(s)

      B(D) : Blunt, A.F., 1954. The Drawings of G.B. Castiglione and Stefano della Bella in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen at Windsor Castle, London no. 112

      Other number(s)

      Ruland p.190 D.82

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