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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

      Drapery studies for the figure of Homer

      c.1853-76

      Albumen print | RCIN 852483

      A photograph of a drawing by Raphael (c.1510) now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille (inv. no.Pl 453). The drapery studies connect with the figure of Homer, standing in the upper left of Raphael's fresco of Parnassus, painted in c.1510-11 in the Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican.
      • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

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