Vatican Frescoes
PIETRO GHIGI (FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY)
Head of a long-haired young man [from 'The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple']
c.1800-50Engraving | 36.1 x 28.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852681
A print reproducing the head and shoulders of the man standing at the Pope's side in the lower left foreground of Raphael's fresco of The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple, painted between 1511 and 1512 in the Stanza di Eliodoro in the Vatican. Lettered with production details below image. The figure is identified on the print as Giovanni Pietro de Foliariis from Cremona. Possibly published in Raccolta delle teste dei filosofi, dei Poeti, colle nove Muse ed Apollo, e di altri uomini illustri dipinti da Raffaelle nella Scuola d'Atene e nel Parnasso al Vaticano, a series engraved by a number of different artists after designs by Luigi Agricola. See RCINs 852469, 852538.
Creator(s)
Pietro Ghigi (first half 19th century) (engraver)
After Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)
Luigi Agricola (c. 1750- c. 1821) (designer)
Franzetti, Agapito : Rome (publisher)
Subject(s)
Giovanni Pietro Foliari36.1 x 28.5 cm (sheet of paper)
GIO: PIETRO FOLIARI. / Di patria Cremonese Segretario dei Memoriali / sotto il Pontificato di Giulio II
- Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Object type(s)
- visual works
- prints
- visual works
Other number(s)
Ruland p.200 B.11