Other Frescoes
Other Frescoes
AFTER A WORK ATTRIBUTED TO RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)
The Martyrdom of St Cecilia
c.1853-76Albumen print | 21.4 x 37.6 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853908
A photograph of a drawing in the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden (inv.no. C168), which is thought to be a heavily-retouched preparatory drawing by Raphael for the lunette fresco The Martyrdom of St Cecilia, fragments of which now survive in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Narbonne. The fresco was part of the decoration in the chapel of the Villa Magliana, the papal villa in the Roman campagna, executed by Raphael's workshop c.1513-20.
The Magliana chapel frescoes were commissioned from Raphael by Pope Leo X. They were detached from the chapel in the nineteenth century and fragments of two of them are now in the Louvre, Paris, and the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Narbonne.
The Magliana chapel frescoes were commissioned from Raphael by Pope Leo X. They were detached from the chapel in the nineteenth century and fragments of two of them are now in the Louvre, Paris, and the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Narbonne.
Creator(s)
After a work attributed to Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
21.4 x 37.6 cm (sheet of paper)
- Acquired for 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))
