PIETRO GHIGI (FIRST HALF 19C)

Set of fifteen prints reproducing heads from 'The School of Athens'

c.1790-1840

Engraving | RCIN 852538

A set of fifteen prints reproducing heads of some of the figures depicted in Raphael's fresco of 'The School of Athens', painted in c.1509-10 in the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican. Each print is lettered with production details and identification of the figure represented. The prints were published in 'Raccolta delle teste dei filosofi, dei Poeti, colle nove Muse ed Apollo, e di altri uomini illustri dipinti da Raffaelle nella Scuola d'Atene e nel Parnasso al Vaticano', a series engraved by a number of different artists after designs by Luigi Agricola. For a set of engravings from the same series reproducing heads from the Parnassus, see RCIN 852469.a-t.

Creator(s)

Pietro Ghigi (first half 19C) (engraver)

Pietro Bonato (1765-1820) (engraver)

Pietro Fontana (1762-1837) (engraver)

Giovan Battista Leonetti (active 1800) (engraver)

Giovanni Petrini (18-19C) (engraver)

Angelo Campanella (1746-1811) (engraver)

After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)

Luigi Agricola (c. 1750- c. 1821) (designer)

Franzetti, Agapito : Rome (publisher)
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 della Segnatura [Vatican Palace]
  
  Vatican-Stanza della Segnatura-School of Athens
Bibliographic reference(s)
p.77, no.15 (Tauriscus 1819 : Tauriscus, E, 1819. Catalogues des estampes gravees d'apres Rafael, Frankurt)

pp.40-41, nos.13-19 (entries by Grazia Bernini Pezzini) (Raphael Invenit 1985 : Bernini Pezzini, G. et al., 1985. Raphael Invenit. Stampe di Raffaello nelle Collezioni dell'Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome)

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Set of fifteen prints reproducing heads from 'The School of Athens'

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