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Venus and Cupid
c. 1857Albumen print? | RCIN 2864433
It has been argued that the Royal Collection drawing derives from Raphael's original compositional design (now lost) for the fresco, and was made in the workshop as part of the preparatory procedure towards executing the final fresco (see Bibliographic References).
Cardinal Bibbiena had a close friendship with Raphael, patronising him on a number of occasions and, it would seem, facilitating the betrothal of the artist to his niece. In addition to the stufetta, Raphael's workshop also painted Cardinal Bibbiena's loggia. Both spaces were designed in a manner imitating ancient Roman painted decoration, and included depictions of episodes from Ovid, grotesques and ornamental motifs. The stufetta was rediscovered in the nineteenth century and survives in a much damaged form today; the loggetta was not rediscovered until the twentieth century.
A copy of this photograph (RCIN 853869) can be found in the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection, portfolio 42 (970602)
Creator(s)
After a work copying Giulio Romano (Rome c. 1499-Mantua 1546) (artist)
Attributed to Charles Thurston Thompson (1816-68)
(photographer)
Acquired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
Subject(s)
- Religion & Theology
- Religions and faiths
- Religions of antiquity
- Classical mythology
- Venus (mythology)
- Cupid
- Classical mythology
- Religions of antiquity
- Religions and faiths
- Places
- Europe
- Italy
- Lazio [Italy]
- Rome [Lazio]
- Vatican City [Rome]
- Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
- Bathroom (stufetta) of Cardinal Bibbiena [Vatican Palace]
- Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
- Vatican City [Rome]
- Rome [Lazio]
- Lazio [Italy]
- Italy
- Europe
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Religion & Theology
Bibliographic reference(s)
P&W : Popham, A.E. & Wilde, J., 1949. The Italian Drawings of the XV and XVI Centuries in the Collection of His Majesty The King at Windsor Castle, London
no.810Clayton 1999 : Clayton, M. Raphael and his Circle. Drawings from Windsor Castle, London
no.33Jones/Penny 1983 : Jones, R. and Penny, N. Raphael, 1983
pp.192-94Cordellier/Py 1992 : Raphael : son atelier, ses copistes, 1992 / par Dominique Cordellier et Bernadette Py, Paris (Inventaire general des dessins Italiens ; V / sous la direction de Francoise Viatte)
pp.324-25