Vatican Frescoes
AFTER RAPHAEL (1483-1520)
Heads of a muse [from the 'Parnassus']
c.1700-1800Stipple | 26.9 x 19.2 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852466
An anonymous print reproducing the bust of the muse seated to the left of Apollo in the fresco of Parnassus, painted by Raphael in c.1510-11 in the Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican. Mounted on a backing cardboard by means of two paper strips. Not in Ruland (1876). Annotated in pencil on the front of the backing cardboard.
Creator(s)
After Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)
26.9 x 19.2 cm (sheet of paper)
24.0 x 16.5 cm (platemark)
49.2 x 36.0 cm (backing cardboard) (sheet of paper)
CALLIOPE / the first of the Nine Muses who invented the use of / Letters and heroic poetry was represented by Raphael / in his Mount Parnassus
- Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (after 1876)
Subject(s)
- Religion & Theology
- Religions and faiths
- Religions of antiquity
- Classical mythology
- Muses
- Classical mythology
- Religions of antiquity
- Religions and faiths
- Places
- Europe
- 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]
- Europe
- Geography
- Physiography
- Mountains
- Physiography
Object type(s)
- visual works
- prints
- Religion & Theology
Bibliographic reference(s)
Höper 2001 : Höper, C. Raffael und die Folgen, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001 p.385, no.F 3.14
Other number(s)
Ruland p.185 C.8a(add)
