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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

The upper half of 'The Disputa'

c.1853-76

Albumen print | RCIN 852395

A photograph of a drawing in the Albertina, Vienna (inv. no.222). The drawing is a copy of 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)