Monumentum
Tauroctony by Raffaello Sanzio
This Raffaello Sanzio relief depicts a late Tauroctony.
Tauroctony by Raffaello SanzioThe Warburg Institute Iconographic Database
The New Mithraeum
21 May 2021
TNMM 268
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. Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio) (1483-1520)
References
- Dacos, Le logge di Raffaello : maestro e bottega di fronte all'antico, Rome, 1977, Tav. LXVIa.
- The Warburg Institute Iconographic Database.
