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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

    AFTER A WORK BY THE SCHOOL OF RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)

    Moses closing the waters of the Red Sea on Pharaoh's army

    c.1853-76

    Albumen print | 18.4 x 35.8 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852793

    A photograph of a drawing by the School of Raphael now in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle (RCIN 905432). This composition is generally thought to have been frescoed in monochrome on a window-embrasure in the Stanza di Eliodoro in the Vatican. The composition is also recorded in an engraving by Pietro Santi Bartoli; see RCIN 852792.

    • Creator(s)

      After a work by the school of Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)

    • 18.4 x 35.8 cm (sheet of paper)

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

    • Subject(s)
      • Places
        • Europe
          • Italy
            • Lazio [Italy]
              • Rome [Lazio]
                • Vatican City [Rome]
                  • Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
                    • Stanza d'Eliodoro [Vatican Palace]
    • Bibliographic reference(s)

      p.318, no.814 (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)

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