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Other Frescoes

Other Frescoes

AFTER RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)

A study for the fresco 'The sybils'

c.1860-76

Carbon print | 21.5 x 21.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853825

A photograph of a drawing by Raphael in the Albertina, Vienna (inv.no.17573) which is a study for the angel holding a scroll, with the arm of the sybil below, on the far left-hand side of the fresco The four sibyls painted by the workshop of Raphael c.1511-14 in the Chigi Chapel in Santa Maria della Pace, Rome. Annotated on verso.

Raphael was commissioned, probably early in 1511, by the banker Agostino Chigi to decorate his chapel in Santa Maria della Pace. The initial plan of decoration for the chapel included frescoes, two bronze roundels and an altarpiece; however, whilst Raphael executed some designs for the altarpiece, which was to depict the resurrection, it was never executed, and the bronze roundels, whilst cast, appear to never have been installed. The frescoes comprise two registers, with four prophets on the top  (flanking a window) and four sybils below. According to Vasari, portions of the frescoes were painted by Timoteo Viti.

  • Creator(s)

    After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)

  • 166 N; R- Cat p. 250, 15

  • 21.5 x 21.0 cm (sheet of paper)

  • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1860-76)
  • Subject(s)
    • Religion & Theology
      • Religions and faiths
        • Religions of antiquity
          • Classical mythology
            • Sibyls (myth)
        • Christianity
          • Angels, demons, devils, saints
            • Angels
  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    no.299 (Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford)

    pp.100-105 (Jones/Penny 1983 : Jones, R. and Penny, N. Raphael, 1983)