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Raphaël, le Miracle de Bolsène (fresque du Vatican)
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James AndersonBritish Photographer · 1813–1877
All works by this person →James Anderson was born Isaac Atkinson in Blencarn, Cumberland, England and studied painting in Paris as William Nugent Dunbar. In 1838 he moved to Rome and began to produce sculpture as James Anderson, which remained his professional name. Eleven years later he took up photography, opening a studio in Rome in 1853. Anderson specialized in reproductions of works of art, publishing frequent catalog
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- 1859
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- Albumen silver print
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A photograph of an engraving of Raphael's fresco "The Mass at Bolsena," representing a Eucharistic miracle that was said to have happened at the Church of Santa Christina in Bolsena. The scene is painted under an arch and depicts a priest seated at a table at the center. Another man is kneeling opposite the priest. Figures in robes are kneeling behind the seated priest, holding large candles.
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