Other Frescoes
Other Frescoes
AFTER A WORK COPYING THE WORKSHOP OF RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)
The Council of the Gods
c.1928Gelatine silver | 36.7 x 53.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853961
A photograph reproducing a painting then (1928) in the collection of Thomas Sidney Parry which is a copy of the fresco depicting the Council of the Gods from the vault of the entrance loggia of the Farnesina, Agostino Chigi's villa in Rome, which was frescoed with mythological subjects by Raphael's workshop c.1518. Not in Ruland (1876). Mounted on a sheet of paper which bears annotations dated July 1928.
The fresco decoration in the Farnesina illustrates the classical fable of Cupid and Psyche, a story which was also frequently used to decorate Florentine wedding chests. Raphael's fresco scheme comprises two primary scenes in the vault (painted to resemble tapestries), accompanied by a series of episodes painted in the pendentives. The whole is encompassed within a fictive pergola, which gives the viewer the impression of looking up into the heavens. Only the upper part of the loggia is painted (the vault and its supporting pendentives and spandrels).
The fresco decoration in the Farnesina illustrates the classical fable of Cupid and Psyche, a story which was also frequently used to decorate Florentine wedding chests. Raphael's fresco scheme comprises two primary scenes in the vault (painted to resemble tapestries), accompanied by a series of episodes painted in the pendentives. The whole is encompassed within a fictive pergola, which gives the viewer the impression of looking up into the heavens. Only the upper part of the loggia is painted (the vault and its supporting pendentives and spandrels).
Creator(s)
After a work copying the workshop of Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
Raphael / Passavant (English translation, 1872) / Page 281, no 11 The Assemblage of the Gods, / from a frescoe in the Farnesina gallery, Rome. / vide Windsor Raphael catalogue page 283 no 46,; Photograph of "a Raffaellesque painting, 8 ft long / in the collection of Mr. Thos Sidney Parry, of / Westbrook Hay, Boxmoor." [space] July 1928
36.7 x 53.0 cm (sheet of paper)
43.0 x 59.6 cm (backing sheet)
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (after 1876)
Bibliographic reference(s)
pp.183-89 (Jones/Penny 1983 : Jones, R. and Penny, N. Raphael, 1983)
