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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

AFTER A WORK COPYING GIOVANNI FRANCESCO PENNI (1496-C. 1536)

God separating Light from Darkness

c.1853-76

Albumen print | 15.6 x 19.7 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853342

A photograph of a drawing catalogued by Ruland (1876) as being then in the collection of the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar. It is similar in composition to the fresco of 'God separating Light from Darkness' painted by the workshop of Raphael (c.1517-19) in the vault of the first bay of the Raphael Loggia in the Vatican.

The drawing is generally considered to be a copy after a drawing by Penni, now in the British Museum (inv. no.1900,0824.109); see also RCIN 853341. For further information see Bibliographic References.
  • Creator(s)

    After a work copying Giovanni Francesco Penni (1496-c. 1536) (artist)

  • 15.6 x 19.7 cm (sheet of paper)

  • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

  • Subject(s)
    • Religion & Theology
      • Religions and faiths
        • Christianity
          • Bible & Holy Scripture
            • Old Testament
  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    p.53, no.64 (Italian Drawings [...] British Museum: Raphael and his circle: catalogue, 1962 / Philip Pouncey and J.A. Gere, London)