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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

AFTER RAPHAEL (1483-1520)

The triumphant Christ flanked by the Virgin Mary and St John the Baptist, with God the Father above and the Holy Dove below [detail from 'The Disputa']

after 1860

Carbon print | 48.2 x 36.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852393

A photograph of the upper central portion of the Disputa (The Disputation of the Holy Sacrament), painted by Raphael around 1508-09 in the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican. With a pencil annotation on the back. Not listed in Ruland (1876).
  • Creator(s)

    After Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)

    Subject(s)

    Blessed Virgin Mary
  • 48.2 x 36.4 cm (sheet of paper)

  • Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (after 1876)

  • Subject(s)
    • Religion & Theology
      • Religions and faiths
        • Christianity
          • God (Christianity)
            • God the Father
    • Places
      • Europe
        • Italy
          • Lazio [Italy]
            • Rome [Lazio]
              • Vatican City [Rome]
                • Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
                  • Stanza della Segnatura [Vatican Palace]
                    • Vatican-Stanza della Segnatura-Disputa
    Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs
  • Other number(s)

    Ruland p.180 B.68a(add)