Tapestries
AFTER A WORK COPYING RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)
St Paul preaching at Athens
c.1853-76Albumen print | 13.9 x 18.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853201
A photograph of a drawing now in the Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi, Florence (inv. no.1217E).
The drawing is generally described as a copy of a now lost modello executed by Raphael for the cartoon of 'St Paul Preaching at Athens', one of the ten tapestries illustrating episodes from the lives of St Peter and St Paul commissioned by Pope Leo X for the Sistine Chapel.
Two almost identical drawings of this subject survive in the Louvre, Paris (inv. no.3884) and in the Metropolitan Museum, New York (Vanderbilt Donation, inv. no.80-3-30), both of which are also considered to be copies. For further discussion, see Bibliographic References.
Creator(s)
After a work copying Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
13.9 x 18.4 cm (sheet of paper)
- Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Subject(s)
- Places
- Europe
- Greece
- Attiki [Greece]
- Athens [Greece]
- Areopagus [Athens]
- Athens [Greece]
- Attiki [Greece]
- Italy
- Lazio [Italy]
- Rome [Lazio]
- Vatican City [Rome]
- Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
- Sistine Chapel [Vatican Palace]
- Vatican-Sistine Chapel tapestries
- Sistine Chapel [Vatican Palace]
- Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
- Vatican City [Rome]
- Rome [Lazio]
- Lazio [Italy]
- Greece
- Europe
- Places
Bibliographic reference(s)
p.154, under no.47 (Shoemaker/Broun 1981 : I. Shoemaker and E. Broun. The Engravings of Marcantonio Raimondi 1981 : Spencer Museum of Art; The Ackland Art Museum, 1981)
p.505, no.1217E (Inventario Uffizi. Disegni Esposti II 1987 : Disegni esposti, vol. 2, 1987 / a cura di Annamaria Petrioli Tofani, Florence (Gabinetto disegni e stampe degli Uffizi) )
p.265 (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))
