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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

    Head of a bishop [from 'The Disputa']

    c.1853-76

    Albumen print | RCIN 852386

    A photograph of a drawing by Carlo Maratti currently in the Royal Library, Windsor Castle (RCIN 904249). The drawing reproduces the head and shoulders of a bishop standing on the left of the altar in the fresco of the Disputa (The Disputation of the Holy Sacrament), painted by Raphael around 1508-09 in the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican.
    • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

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