The frescoes in the Vatican Palace commissioned by Popes Julius II and Leo X
Charles Thurston Thompson (1816-68)
A pope flanked by the personification of Fortitude and angels c.1853-76
Albumen print | 27.9 x 19.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852999
A photograph of a drawing by Carlo Maratti now in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle (RCIN 904229). The drawing is after the group of a niched pope (Felix III or Gregory VII?) surrounded by angels and accompanied by the allegorical figure of Fortitude, painted by Raphael's workshop in the Sala di Costantino in the Vatican.
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Creator(s)
Charles Thurston Thompson (1816-68) (photographer)
After Carlo Maratti (1625-1713) (artist)
After a work copying The Workshop of Raphael (artist)
Subject(s)
Pope Felix III (d. 492)Pope Gregory VII (1023-1085) -
27.9 x 19.4 cm (sheet of paper)
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Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
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Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
Subject(s)
- Places
- Europe
- Italy
- Lazio [Italy]
- Rome [Lazio]
- Vatican City [Rome]
- Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
- Sala di Costantino [Vatican Palace]
- Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
- Vatican City [Rome]
- Rome [Lazio]
- Lazio [Italy]
- Italy
- Europe
- visual works
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Other number(s)
Ruland p.240 C.VII.4
Bibliographic reference(s)
B(R) : Blunt, A.F. & Cooke, H.L., 1960. The Roman Drawings of the XVII and XVIII Centuries in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen at Windsor Castle, London p.65, no.429
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