Other Frescoes
The triumph of Galatea
c.1515-1527Engraving | 39.3 x 28.6 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853841
The triumph of Galatea was Raphael's first commission from the Papal banker Agostino Chigi for the Villa Farnesina; he later also frescoed the villa's entrance loggia, as well as working on the banker's chapels in Santa Maria del Popolo and Santa Maria della Pace, both also in Rome. Raphael's literary source for his depiction of Galatea was a poem by Poliziano which celebrated the victory of Giuliano de'Medici in a joust of 1475. Contemporaneously, Sebastiano del Piombo painted a fresco adjacent to Raphael's, again based on Poliziano's poem, depicting the giant Polyphemus. It seems likely that a full cycle of frescoes was planned for the loggia but that this plan was abandoned, for reasons unknown.
Creator(s)
Marco Dente Da Ravenna (1486-1527) (engraver)
After a work by the workshop of Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)
annotation: p 59 [verso, bottom left corner, in ink]
annotation: H62 [verso, bottom right corner, in ink]
watermark: anchor in a circle [centre]
39.3 x 28.6 cm (sheet of paper)
- Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Object type(s)
- visual works
- prints
- visual works
Bibliographic reference(s)
Raphael Invenit 1985 : G. Bernini Pezzini et al., Raphael Invenit. Stampe di Raffaello nelle Collezioni dell'Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome, 1985 p.150, VI.2 (entry by Stefania Massari)
Jones/Penny 1983 : Jones, R. and Penny, N. Raphael, 1983 pp.93-97
Other number(s)
Ruland p.273 A.IV.5