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GODS AND MYTHS

Mithras / Census of Antique Art known to the Renaissance / Known prototypes / Paris, Louvre, inv. 1023
Mithras / Myths / The killing of the bull / With Cautes and Cautopates

Further details

Perhaps based on the Tauroctony now in the Louvre. In the review of Dacos, Logge by N. Canedy (Art Bulletin) he sees here a Victory sacrificing a bull, but the image clearly derives from Mithras

Artist or creator

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio) (1483-1520) (circle)

Date

1518 - 1519

Location

Vatican City, Palazzo Apostolico, Logge (sottarco II B, esterno)

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Dacos, Le logge di Raffaello : maestro e bottega di fronte all'antico, Rome, 1977, Tav. LXVIa

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Dean’s Development Fund, School of Advanced Study’

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