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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

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

    Pilaster decorations in the Loggia

    c.1853-76

    Albumen print | 42.5 x 28.3 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853726

    A photograph of the recto of a drawing now in the Louvre (inv.no.780) copying elements of the decoration of the pilasters between the third and fourth and fourth and fifth bays of the Loggia designed by Raphael and executed by his workshop (c.1517-19) in the Vatican. For a photograph of the verso of this drawing, which contains copies after another pilaster, see RCIN 853727. Annotated on verso.

    The drawing was catalogued by Ruland (1876) as being in the collection of Édouard Gatteaux in Paris and it bears his collector's stamp (Lugt 852). A fire at the Gatteaux house in 1871 destroyed a significant portion of the collection, but this drawing survived.

    The repeating sequence of decoration in the Logge - see Dacos 2008 (Bibliographic References) for more information - is strongly influenced by the antique; Raphael had studied antique sculpture and painting in Rome.

    • Creator(s)

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

      Previously attributed to after Giovanni da Udine (c. 1487-1564) (artist)

    • annotation: Pil IV & V [verso, centre, in ink]

    • 42.5 x 28.3 cm (sheet of paper)

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

    • Subject(s)
      • Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
        • Decorative motifs
          • Grotesques
        • Decorative techniques & surface decoration
          • Floral decorations
            • Garlands
      Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • photographs
    • 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) p.454, no.780

      Davidson 1985 : Davidson, Bernice F. Raphael's Bible. A Study of the Vatican Logge, 1985 pp.27-38

      Dacos 2008: Dacos, N., The Loggia of Raphael: A Vatican Art Treasure, 2008 pp.15-135

      Other number(s)

      Ruland p.231 B.116

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