Monumentum
Tauroctony by Raffaello Sanzio
This Raffaello Sanzio relief depicts a late Tauroctony.
PublishedMithraeum.eu
21 May 2021
Tauroctony by Raffaello Sanzio
The Warburg Institute Iconographic Database
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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.
Data
- Current location
Palazzo Apostolico, Logge (sottarco II B, esterno) Vatican City (Vatican) - Type
- Labels
- Discovery date 1518
- Canonical URI
mithraeum.eu/monument/268