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Le Sacrifice de Mithras. 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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- British
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- Photographs
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Photograph of a statue depicting the tauroctony scene, one of the central cult imageries of the Roman Mithraic Mysteries. It portrays the god, Mithra, half-straddling a bull that has been forced to the ground and slaying it with a short sword. A dog and a serpent can be seen holding their heads near the bull's wound, from which droplets of blood flow.
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