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One of our London Art Week highlights is the Three Graces, a detached fresco painted in the early sixteenth century by painter and architect Baldassare Peruzzi. This fresco reveals Peruzzi’s interest in antiquity, as he chose a mythological iconography dating back to the Hellenistic period. It also recalls the Tree Graces by Raphael, who as Peruzzi, worked at Villa Farnesina for Agostino Chigi, painting the famous Galatea and Loggia di Amore e Psyche. Raphael and Peruzzi may have used the same iconographic source, the Roman marble statue of the Three Graces located in the Libreria …