Mythology & Putti
Mythology & Putti
MARCANTONIO RAIMONDI (C. 1480-1534)
Apollo, Minerva, and the Muses
c.1510-1530Engraving | RCIN 851751
A series of 16 engravings attributed to Marcantonio Raimondi known as 'Apollo, Minerva, and the Muses'. The engravings are generally thought to be based on designs by Raphael, inspired by an Antique sarcophagus formerly in the Palazzo Giustiniani, Rome, and now in Vienna, and by another sarcophagus with a wedding scene currently in the Basilica di San Lorenzo, Rome (see Massari in Raphael Invenit 1985, p.242). An engraving after the sarcophagus once in the Palazzo Giustiniani at RCIN 851758.
Creator(s)
Marcantonio Raimondi (c. 1480-1534) (engraver)
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Subject(s)
- Language, Linguistics and Literature
- Literature
- Fiction
- Tales & legends
- Myths
- Tales & legends
- Fiction
- Literature
- Religion & Theology
- Religions and faiths
- Religions of antiquity
- Classical mythology
- Apollo (myth)
- Muses
- Classical mythology
- Religions of antiquity
- Religions and faiths
- Language, Linguistics and Literature
Bibliographic reference(s)
pp.241-2, no.I.1-14 (Raphael Invenit 1985 : Bernini Pezzini, G. et al., 1985. Raphael Invenit. Stampe di Raffaello nelle Collezioni dell'Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome)
