Vatican Frescoes
Vatican Frescoes
Figures from Raphael's School of Athens
after 1510Woodcut, printed in black ink | RCIN 852543
An anonymous woodcut reproducing the group of figures standing to the left of Aristotle at the top of the stairs in Raphael's fresco of 'The School of Athens', painted in c.1509-10 in the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican. The woodcut, printed from two blocks, is on two joined sheets of paper. According to Ruland (1876), the woodcut was made after a tracing.
- Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)