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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

      Pope Leo I enthroned between allegorical figures and caryatids

      c.1860-76

      Carbon print | RCIN 852991

      A photograph of the group of Pope Leo the Great enthroned between the allegorical figures of Purity and Truth, painted to the right of the fresco of 'The Baptism of Constantine', executed by Raphael's workshop in the Sala di Costantino in the Vatican between 1520 and 1524.
      • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1860-76)

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