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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

AFTER A WORK COPYING THE WORKSHOP OF RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)

Joseph addresses his brothers

c.1853-76

Salted paper print | 11.6 x 23.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853674

A photograph of a drawing in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle (RCIN 990493) which corresponds to the almost entirely destroyed fresco 'Joseph addresses his brothers' painted by the workshop of Raphael (c.1517-19) in the basamento of the seventh bay of the Raphael Loggia in the Vatican.

In his monograph on Raphael, Passavant (see Bibliographic References) stated that this drawing is a copy of one formerly in the collection of Sir Thomas Lawrence, but this original drawing has not been traced. This drawing was catalogued by Ruland (1876) as being attributed to Perino del Vago, whom Vasari credited with executing the basamento frescoes.

According to Dacos (see Bibliographic References), the basamento paintings of the Raphael Loggia in the Vatican were executed in grisaille and imitated bronze reliefs.
  • Creator(s)

    After a work copying the workshop of Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)

  • T / 186[?]

  • 11.6 x 23.4 cm (sheet of paper)

  • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

  • Subject(s)
    • Religion & Theology
      • Religions and faiths
        • Christianity
          • Bible & Holy Scripture
            • Old Testament
  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    no.993 (P&W : Popham, A.E. & Wilde, J., 1949. The Italian Drawings of the XV and XVI Centuries in the Collection of His Majesty The King at Windsor Castle, London)

    fig.65 (Davidson 1985 : Davidson, Bernice F. Raphael's Bible. A Study of the Vatican Logge, 1985)

    pp.173-194 (Dacos 2008: Dacos, N., The Loggia of Raphael: A Vatican Art Treasure, 2008)