Other Frescoes
Other Frescoes
LUDWIG GRÜNER (1801-82)
Frescoes in the chapel of the Villa Magliana
published 1847Outline etchings | RCIN 853901
Three outline etchings illustrating the lunette fresco decoration of the chapel in the Villa Magliana, the papal villa in the Roman campagna. Raphael and his workshop executed frescoes in the villa's chapel dedicated to St John the Baptist c.1513-20; the frescoes were detached in the nineteenth century and fragments of two of them are now in the Louvre, Paris, and the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Narbonne. India laid. Published in Ludwig Grüner, I freschi nella cappella della Villa Magliana, London, 1847.
Grüner's publication comprises an introduction to the Villa Magliana frescoes, written by Ernst Platner, and 5 illustrative plates. This was Grüner's second publication devoted exclusively to Raphael, and he would go on to execute another 5 volumes focusing on different works by the artist.
Creator(s)
Ludwig Grüner (1801-82) (etcher)
Ludwig Grüner : 183 Regent Street, London (editor)
Colnaghi & Co. [London] (publisher)
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Bibliographic reference(s)
pp.119-21 (Raphael dans les collections françaises 1983 : Hommage a Raphael. Raphael dans les collections françaises: (Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 15 novembre 1983-13 fevrier 1984), Paris)
pp.509-10 (Cordellier/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))
