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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

Pope Clement I enthroned between allegorical figures and caryatids

c.1860-76

Carbon print | RCIN 852951

A photograph showing the group of Pope Clement I (depicted with the Features of Leo X) enthroned between the allegorical figures of Temperance and Meekness, on the right of the fresco of 'The Vision of the Cross', painted by Raphael's workshop in the Sala di Costantino in the Vatican between 1520 and 1524.
  • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1860-76)