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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

    Study for the upper part of 'The Disputa'

    c.1853-76

    Albumen print | RCIN 852397

    A photograph of a drawing by Raphael currently in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no. WA1846.183). The drawing is an early design for the upper part of 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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