Vatican Frescoes
Vatican Frescoes
Allegorical figure of Truth [from the Sala di Costantino]
dated 1635Etching | RCIN 852994
A print reproducing, in reverse, the allegorical figure of Truth, painted to the right of Pope Leo the Great in the Sala di Costantino in the Vatican. Dated and lettered with production details. Numbered at lower left: 10. From a series of plates reproducing allegorical figures from Raphael's Stanze, executed by Vuibert in 1635. Not in Ruland (1876). The figure is identified on the print as Poverty.
- Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)