Vatican Frescoes
MARIA KATHARINA PRESTEL (1747-94)
Diogenes [from 'The School of Athens']
dated 1779Etching with aquatint | 17.9 x 26.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852559
A facsimile of a drawing attributed on plate to Giorgio Vasari when in the collection of Mr Praun in Nuremberg. The lettered inscription, including printmaker's name and date of execution: 1779, was cut off and pasted below image. Published in Johann Gottlieb Prestel, Dessins des meilleurs Peintres d'Italie, d'Allemagne, et des Pays-Bas, du Cabinet de Monsieur Paul de Praun à Nuremberg, 1780, plate 14.
The drawing reproduced in this print appears to be a copy after the figure of the philosopher reclining on the stairs with a cup by his side in Raphael's School of Athens. Following Vasari's account of the fresco, this figure is usually identified as the Greek philosopher Diogenes the Cynic (Diogenes of Sinope).
The drawing reproduced in this print appears to be a copy after the figure of the philosopher reclining on the stairs with a cup by his side in Raphael's School of Athens. Following Vasari's account of the fresco, this figure is usually identified as the Greek philosopher Diogenes the Cynic (Diogenes of Sinope).
Creator(s)
Maria Katharina Prestel (1747-94) (printmaker)
After Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)
Subject(s)
Diogenes (d. c. 323 BC)17.9 x 26.5 cm (sheet of paper)
2.8 x 32.7 cm (label below image) (sheet of paper)
- Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Object type(s)
- visual works
- prints
- visual works
Other number(s)
Ruland p.190 D.105
