The frescoes in the Vatican Palace commissioned by Popes Julius II and Leo X
After a work attributed to Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520)
Two male studies c.1853-76
Albumen print | 26.3 x 36.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852925
A photograph of a drawing by Raphael (c.1519-20) now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no.WA1846.210). The drawing is preparatory for figures of soldiers climbing into a boat painted in the extreme right foreground of the fresco of The Battle of Constantine at the Milvian Bridge, executed by Raphael's workshop in the Sala di Costantino in the Vatican after designs by the master.
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Creator(s)
After a work attributed to Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
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26.3 x 36.4 cm (sheet of paper)
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Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
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Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
Subject(s)
- Social sciences
- Military affairs
- Wars, Campaigns & Battles
- War operations
- Battles
- Wars
- Wars of the first century to the tenth century
- Rome and the Barbarians (305-400) (war)
- Battle of the Milvian Bridge, 312 (Rome and the Barbarians)
- Rome and the Barbarians (305-400) (war)
- Wars of the first century to the tenth century
- War operations
- Wars, Campaigns & Battles
- Military affairs
- visual works
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Other number(s)
Ruland p.236 B.II.17
Bibliographic reference(s)
Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford p.243, no.441r
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