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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

    AFTER A WORK COPYING RAPHAEL (1483-1520)

    Two armed horsemen and other soldiers on foot

    c.1853-76

    Albumen print | 22.6 x 34.8 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852729

    A photograph of a drawing currently in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle (RCIN 991237). The drawing is a copy from Raphael's fresco of The Meeting between Leo the Great and Attila, painted in the Stanza di Eliodoro in the Vatican. Ruland (1876) suggested an attribution to Giulio Romano.

    • Creator(s)

      After a work copying Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)

      Subject(s)

      Huns

    • 22.6 x 34.8 cm (sheet of paper)

    • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

    • Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • photographs
    • Bibliographic reference(s)

      P&W : Popham, A.E. & Wilde, J., 1949. The Italian Drawings of the XV and XVI Centuries in the Collection of His Majesty The King at Windsor Castle, London p.319, no.825

      Other number(s)

      Ruland p.203 D.13

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