Vatican Frescoes
Vatican Frescoes
ANTONIO REGONA (1760-1853)
Head of a long-haired young man [from 'The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple']
c.1780-1843Etching with engraving | 36.2 x 28.2 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852682
A print reproducing the head and shoulders of the farther litter-bearer depicted 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 artists' names and text in Italian. The figure is identified on the print as the painter Giulio Romano.
Creator(s)
Antonio Regona (1760-1853) (engraver)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
Luigi Agricola (c. 1750- c. 1821) (designer)
36.2 x 28.2 cm (sheet of paper)
GIULIO ROMANO / Così detto dalla sua patria. Fù egualmente celebre / pittore, ed archi.to Impiegossi molto col suo maestro Raffaele / nelle pitture del Vaticano, e ne compiè alcune da esso la / sciate imperfette. Morì in Mantova di anni 54. nel 1546.
- Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
