Vatican Frescoes
Vatican Frescoes
Drapery studies for the figure of Homer
c.1853-76Albumen print | RCIN 852483
A photograph of a drawing by Raphael (c.1510) now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille (inv. no.Pl 453). The drapery studies connect with the figure of Homer, standing in the upper left of Raphael's fresco of Parnassus, painted in c.1510-11 in the Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican.
Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
