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Tauroctony by Raffaello Sanzio

This Raffaello Sanzio relief depicts a late Tauroctony.
Tauroctony by Raffaello Sanzio

Tauroctony by Raffaello Sanzio
The Warburg Institute Iconographic Database 

 
 
The New Mithraeum
21 May 2021
 

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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. Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio) (1483-1520)