Other Frescoes
Other Frescoes
AFTER A WORK ATTRIBUTED TO GIULIO ROMANO (ROME C. 1499-MANTUA 1546)
Venus Anadyomene
c.1853-76Albumen print | 23.9 x 14.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853860
A photograph of a drawing, generally attributed to Giulio Romano, in the Staaliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich which depicts Venus Anadyomene. The figure of Venus in this drawing corresponds with that in the fresco, designed by Raphael, depicting the birth of Venus on the east wall of the stufetta, or bathroom, in the apartments of Cardinal Bibbiena in the Vatican Palace. The stufetta was frescoed with mythological subjects by Raphael's workshop c.1516. Annotated on verso.
Cardinal Bibbiena had a close friendship with Raphael, patronising him on a number of occasions and, it would seem, facilitating the betrothal of the artist to his niece. In addition to the stufetta, Raphael's workshop also painted Cardinal Bibbiena's loggia. Both spaces were designed in a manner imitating ancient Roman painted decoration, and included depictions of episodes from Ovid, grotesques and ornamental motifs. The stufetta was rediscovered in the nineteenth century and survives in a much damaged form today; the loggetta was not rediscovered until the twentieth century.
The British Museum holds an offset from a red chalk drawing which corresponds very closely, though not exactly, with the drawing in this photograph (see RCINs 853861 and 853862 for photographs of this offset); the BM work is thought to be an offset from a drawing copying the figure from the fresco in the stufetta.
Cardinal Bibbiena had a close friendship with Raphael, patronising him on a number of occasions and, it would seem, facilitating the betrothal of the artist to his niece. In addition to the stufetta, Raphael's workshop also painted Cardinal Bibbiena's loggia. Both spaces were designed in a manner imitating ancient Roman painted decoration, and included depictions of episodes from Ovid, grotesques and ornamental motifs. The stufetta was rediscovered in the nineteenth century and survives in a much damaged form today; the loggetta was not rediscovered until the twentieth century.
The British Museum holds an offset from a red chalk drawing which corresponds very closely, though not exactly, with the drawing in this photograph (see RCINs 853861 and 853862 for photographs of this offset); the BM work is thought to be an offset from a drawing copying the figure from the fresco in the stufetta.
Creator(s)
After a work attributed to Giulio Romano (Rome c. 1499-Mantua 1546) (artist)
23.9 x 14.4 cm (sheet of paper)
Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Subject(s)
- Places
- Europe
- Italy
- Lazio [Italy]
- Rome [Lazio]
- Vatican City [Rome]
- Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
- Bathroom (stufetta) of Cardinal Bibbiena [Vatican Palace]
- Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
- Vatican City [Rome]
- Rome [Lazio]
- Lazio [Italy]
- Italy
- Europe
- Places
