Vatican Frescoes
STEFANO MULINARI (1741-90)
Moses closing the waters of the Red Sea on Pharaoh's army
c.1761-1780Etching and lavis | 25.3 x 43.9 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852794
A facsimile of a drawing now in the Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi, Florence. Lettered with artists' names. Numbered at top right: XXII.
This composition is generally thought to have been frescoed in monochrome on a window-embrasure in the Stanza di Eliodoro in the Vatican. A similar drawing is in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle (RCIN 905432). The composition corresponds in reverse with an engraving by Pietro Santi Bartoli; see RCIN 852792.
This composition is generally thought to have been frescoed in monochrome on a window-embrasure in the Stanza di Eliodoro in the Vatican. A similar drawing is in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle (RCIN 905432). The composition corresponds in reverse with an engraving by Pietro Santi Bartoli; see RCIN 852792.
Creator(s)
Stefano Mulinari (1741-90) (printmaker)
After a work previously attributed to Polidoro da Caravaggio (c. 1495-1543) (artist)
25.3 x 43.9 cm (sheet of paper)
- Added to 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]
- Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
- Vatican City [Rome]
- Rome [Lazio]
- Lazio [Italy]
- Italy
- Europe
- Places
Bibliographic reference(s)
p.318, under 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)
