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The frescoes in the Vatican Palace commissioned by Popes Julius II and Leo X

After a work attributed to Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520)

Moses parts the Red Sea c.1853-76

Albumen print | 19.3 x 27.6 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853529

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A photograph of a drawing in the Louvre (inv.no.3850) which is considered to be the modello for the fresco Moses parts the Red Sea painted by the workshop of Raphael (c.1517-19) in the vault of the eighth bay of the Raphael Loggia in the Vatican. The drawing, which has been squared (presumably for transfer), is attributed by the Louvre tto either Raphael or Giovanni Francesco Penni; Dacos (2008; see Bibliographic References) attributes it (and the background in the fresco itself) to Bartolomeo di David.
  • Creator(s)

    After a work attributed to Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)

    After a work attributed to Giovanni Francesco Penni (1496-c. 1536) (artist)

    Subject(s)
    Moses(OT)
  • 19.3 x 27.6 cm (sheet of paper)

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

  • Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs
    Subject(s)
    • Religion & Theology
      • Religions and faiths
        • Christianity
          • Bible & Holy Scripture
            • Old Testament
  • Other number(s)

    Ruland p.221 B.XXXI.5

    Bibliographic reference(s)

    Cordellier/Py 1992 : Raphael : son atelier, ses copistes, 1992 / par Dominique Cordellier et Bernadette Py, Paris (Inventaire general des dessins Italiens ; V / sous la direction de Francoise Viatte) no.694

    Dacos 2008: Dacos, N., The Loggia of Raphael: A Vatican Art Treasure, 2008 p.223, pl.160