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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

      AFTER A WORK COPYING RAPHAEL (1483-1520)

      Study of a man's arm

      c.1853-76

      Albumen print | 10.0 x 15.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852700

      A photograph of a drawing formerly thought to be by Raphael now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no.WA1846.276). The drawing is now generally regarded as a copy of a lost original study by Raphael for the arm of the foremost figure running alongside the rider in the centre-right foreground of the fresco of The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple, painted in 1511-12 in the Stanza di Eliodoro in the Vatican. A photograph of the fresco can be found at RCIN 852670.

      • Creator(s)

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

      • 10.0 x 15.0 cm (sheet of paper)

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

      • Subject(s)
        • Science, Medicine and Technology
          • Medical sciences
            • Anatomy
              • Human anatomy
                • Arms (human)
        Object type(s)
          • visual works
            • photographs
      • Other number(s)

        Ruland p.201 B.39

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