Other Frescoes
Other Frescoes
GUSTAV PHILIP ZWINGER (1779-1819)
The head of Cupid
1800-1818Lithograph | 32.4 x 21.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853924
A lithograph by Gustav Phillip Zwinger reproducing the detail of the head of Cupid in the pendentive fresco depicting Cupid and the Three Graces from the vault of the entrance loggia of the Farnesina, Agostino Chigi's villa in Rome, frescoed with mythological subjects by Raphael's workshop c.1518. Lettered with title, attribution of the composition to Raphael and the names of the draughtsman and lithographer.
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)
Gustav Philip Zwinger (1779-1819) (lithographer)
After? Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
? Johann Justin Preissler (1698-1771) (draughtsman)
32.4 x 21.5 cm (sheet of paper)
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Subject(s)
- Religion & Theology
- Religions and faiths
- Religions of antiquity
- Classical mythology
- Cupid
- Classical mythology
- Religions of antiquity
- Religions and faiths
- Religion & Theology
Bibliographic reference(s)
pp.192-94 (Jones/Penny 1983 : Jones, R. and Penny, N. Raphael, 1983)
