Vatican Frescoes
AFTER RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)
A combat of nude men
c.1853-76Albumen print | 37.5 x 28.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852575
A photograph of a drawing by Raphael (c.1509) now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no.552r). The drawing is a preparatory study for the bas-relief in grisaille under the statue of Apollo on the left side of Raphael's 'School of Athens', painted in c.1509-10 in the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican.
Creator(s)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
37.5 x 28.0 cm (sheet of paper)
- Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Subject(s)
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
- Plastic arts
- Sculpture
- Reliefs
- Sculpture
- Plastic arts
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
Bibliographic reference(s)
p.190, no.233r (Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford)
