Life and Legend of the Virgin Mary
Life and Legend of the Virgin Mary
AFTER A WORK COPYING PIETRO PERUGINO (CITTÀ DELLA PIEVE C. 1450-FONTIGNANO 1523)
A King in an Epiphany
c.1853-76Albumen print | 23.9 x 17.9 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851379
A photograph of a drawing now in the British Museum, London (inv. no.Pp,1.62). The drawing is a copy from the youthful King standing at left in the Adoration of the Magi, a painting now in the Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Florence (inv. no.341) thought to derive from a lost fresco by Perugino formerly in the cloister of San Giusto alle Mure in Florence, a preparatory study for which is now in the British Museum, London (inv. no.1853,1008.1).
Creator(s)
After a work copying Pietro Perugino (Città della Pieve c. 1450-Fontignano 1523) (artist)
23.9 x 17.9 cm (sheet of paper)
Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Subject(s)
- Religion & Theology
- Religions and faiths
- Christianity
- Life of Christ
- Infancy of Christ
- Adoration of the Magi
- Infancy of Christ
- Life of Christ
- Christianity
- Religions and faiths
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Religion & Theology
Bibliographic reference(s)
Catalogue of the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. v.
A.E. Popham and P. Pouncey, The Fourtheenth and Fifteenth Centuries, p.119, no.194Scarpellini 1984 : Scarpellini, P, 1984. Perugino, Milan
p.82, no.42Other number(s)
Ruland p.105 A.I.31