The artwork, featuring the face of Chiara Fancelli, Perugino’s wife, was painted on a poplar wood panel measuring 46 cm by 34 cm.

It is dated 1504, belongs to a foreign private collection and has been attributed to the Renaissance master by a pool of scholars.

The announcement at the conference on ‘Raphael Sanzio’s Vision of Perfection’ comes ahead of the publication next week of the study regarding the attribution in Open Science’s Art and Science journal.

The study is entitled Raphael’s Magdalene, When the Pupil Surpasses the Master. 

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