Vatican Frescoes
Diana of Ephesus
c.1853-76Albumen print | 21.1 x 8.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853728
The drawing reproduced in this photograph is contained within the so-called Vittoria album (RCIN 970359), which comprises a group of drawings which were in the collection of Spanish painter and printmaker Vincenzo Vittoria (1650-1712). Ruland (1876) catalogues this drawing as either having been authored by Giovanni da Udine or copied from him by Pietro Santi Bartoli. Many of the drawings in the Vittoria album are by Pietro Santi Bartoli, though not this particular one.
The repeating sequence of decoration in the Logge - see Dacos 2008 (Bibliographic References) for more information - is strongly influenced by the antique; Raphael had studied antique sculpture and painting in Rome.
Creator(s)
After a work by the workshop of Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)
Previously attributed to after Giovanni da Udine (c. 1487-1564) (artist)
annotation: 117 [verso, centre, in red pencil[?]]
21.1 x 8.5 cm (sheet of paper)
- Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Subject(s)
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
- Decorative motifs
- Grotesques
- Decorative techniques & surface decoration
- Floral decorations
- Garlands
- Floral decorations
- Decorative motifs
- Natural Sciences & Mathematics
- Biological sciences
- Zoology
- Animals
- Mammals
- Deer
- Red deer
- Stags (male deer)
- Red deer
- Carnivorous mammals
- Felines
- Lions
- Felines
- Deer
- Mythical creatures
- Unicorns
- Griffins (mythical creatures)
- Mammals
- Animals
- Zoology
- Biological sciences
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
Bibliographic reference(s)
Davidson 1985 : Davidson, Bernice F. Raphael's Bible. A Study of the Vatican Logge, 1985 pp.27-38
Dacos 2008: Dacos, N., The Loggia of Raphael: A Vatican Art Treasure, 2008 pp.15-135
CDP A.I: H. Whitehouse, Ancient Mosaics and Wallpaintings, Part A.I of The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo: A Catalogue Raisonne, London 2001 pp.244-48, no.60; comp.ill.60ii.
Other number(s)
Ruland p.231 B.118
