Location: Città del Vaticano, Musei Vaticani
Sub-Location: Stanza di Eliodoro

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Type:Inscription
Language:Latin
Transcription Author: John Shearman
Published: yes
Publication Details: The document was first discovered by G. P. Bellori, “Descrizzione delle immagini dipinte da raffaele d’Urbino nelle Camere del Palazzo Apostolico Vaticano”, Roma 1695, pp. 42, 92; the present transcription is taken from J. Shearman, “ Raphael in early modern sources”, Yale University in association with the Bibliotheca Hertziana Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, New Haven and London 2003, pp. 176-77.
Notes: The date is a post quem.

Inscription in the Stanza di Eliodoro, beneath the Liberation of St Peter.

Artist(s): Raphael
Dates: 19.3.1514
LEO.X.PONT ANN CHRIST M.D.XIIII MAX PONTIFICAT SVI.II