The frescoes in the Vatican Palace commissioned by Popes Julius II and Leo X
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520)
Head of poet [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1650-1750
Etching with engraving | 16.5 x 12.3 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852471
![Head of poet [from the 'Parnassus']](https://albert.rct.uk/sites/default/files/styles/rctr-scale-1300-500/public/collection-online/5/f/759471-1527264014.jpg?itok=0Fc3yyGV "Head of poet [from the 'Parnassus']")
An anonymous reversed print reproducing the head of one of the poets depicted in the lower right corner of the fresco of Parnassus, painted by Raphael in c.1510-11 in the Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican. The print identifies the figure as the ancient Roman poet Publius Ovidius Naso (43 BC-AD 17/18), known as Ovid.
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Creator(s)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
Subject(s)
Ovid (43 BC-17 AD) -
16.5 x 12.3 cm (sheet of paper)
8.1 x 7.1 cm (platemark)
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P. OVIDIUS NASO.
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Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
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Object type(s)
- visual works
- prints
Subject(s)
- People
- Poets
- Places
- Europe
- Greece
- Mount Parnassus [Greece]
- Italy
- Lazio [Italy]
- Rome [Lazio]
- Vatican City [Rome]
- Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
- Stanza della Segnatura [Vatican Palace]
- Vatican-Stanza della Segnatura-Parnassus
- Stanza della Segnatura [Vatican Palace]
- Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
- Vatican City [Rome]
- Rome [Lazio]
- Lazio [Italy]
- Greece
- Europe
- visual works
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Other number(s)
Ruland p.186 C.I.56
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