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Pope Leo repulses Atilla from the gates of Rome and points to Saints Peter and Paul overhead
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Pope Leo repulses Atilla from the gates of Rome and points to Saints Peter and Paul overhead

Medium

Etching; second state of two (Bertarelli)

Dimensions

Sheet (Trimmed): 18 7/8 × 13 1/4 in. (48 × 33.6 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Pope Leo I the Great

0400 |1634 |1598 |1651 –0461 |1718 |1654 |1725 Italian|Italian|Italian|Flemish

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