The frescoes in the Vatican Palace commissioned by Popes Julius II and Leo X
After a work copying Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520)
Head of a woman c.1853-76
Albumen print | 26.9 x 21.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852503
A photograph of a drawing now in the Biblioteca Reale, Turin (inv. no.15658). The drawing has been formerly thought to be a study from life made by Raphael in preparation for the head of one of the muses depicted in his fresco of Parnassus in the Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican.
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Creator(s)
After a work copying Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
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26.9 x 21.0 cm (sheet of paper)
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Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
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Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
Subject(s)
- Religion & Theology
- Religions and faiths
- Religions of antiquity
- Classical mythology
- Muses
- Classical mythology
- Religions of antiquity
- Religions and faiths
- visual works
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Other number(s)
Ruland p.188 C.I.88
Bibliographic reference(s)
Bertini 1958 : Bertini, A. I disegni italiani della Biblioteca reale di Torino : catalogo, 1958 p.62, no.481
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