The frescoes in the Vatican Palace commissioned by Popes Julius II and Leo X
After a work copying Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520)
A study for the head of a Muse c.1853-76
Albumen print | 25.1 x 18.8 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852500
A photograph of a drawing catalogued by Ruland (1876) as being then in the collection of Miss Woodburn. The drawing is a copy of an auxiliary cartoon by Raphael for the head of the third standing muse to the right of Apollo in the fresco of Parnassus, painted in c.1510-11 in the Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican. The original drawing by Raphael is currently in a Private Collection (sold at Christie's, London, 8 December 2009, lot 43); a photograph of it can be found at RCIN 852497.
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Creator(s)
After a work copying Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
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25.1 x 18.8 cm (sheet of paper)
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Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
Subject(s)
- Religion & Theology
- Religions and faiths
- Religions of antiquity
- Classical mythology
- Muses
- Classical mythology
- Religions of antiquity
- Religions and faiths
- Places
- Europe
- Greece
- Mount Parnassus [Greece]
- Greece
- Europe
- visual works
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Other number(s)
Ruland p.187 C.I.85
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