Vatican Frescoes
Vatican Frescoes
PAOLO FIDANZA (B. 1731)
Set of heads from ''The Battle of Constantine at the Milvian Bridge'
published 1785Etching | RCIN 852915
A set of six prints reproducing heads of figures depicted in the fresco of The Battle of Constantine at the Milvian Bridge, designed by Raphael and eventually painted by his workshop in the Sala di Costantino in the Vatican between 1520 and 1524. All prints are lettered along the lower margin and numbered at top right. Probably from Tetes choisies de personagges illustres... published by Fidanza in Rome in 1785.
Paolo Fidanza became famous for publishing six volumes of prints of heads after Raphael between 1757 and 1763.
Paolo Fidanza became famous for publishing six volumes of prints of heads after Raphael between 1757 and 1763.
Creator(s)
Paolo Fidanza (b. 1731) (printmaker)
After Raphael (1483-1520) (designer)
Subject(s)
Constantine I, The Great (272-337 AD)Maxentius, Emperor of Rome (278-312 AD)- Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Subject(s)
- Social sciences
- Military affairs
- Wars, Campaigns & Battles
- Wars
- Wars of the first century to the tenth century
- Rome and the Barbarians (305-400) (war)
- Battle of the Milvian Bridge, 312 (Rome and the Barbarians)
- Rome and the Barbarians (305-400) (war)
- Wars of the first century to the tenth century
- War operations
- Battles
- Wars
- Wars, Campaigns & Battles
- Military affairs
- Places
- Europe
- Italy
- Lazio [Italy]
- Rome [Lazio]
- Vatican City [Rome]
- Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
- Sala di Costantino [Vatican Palace]
- Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
- Vatican City [Rome]
- Rome [Lazio]
- Lazio [Italy]
- Italy
- Europe
- Science, Medicine and Technology
- Medical sciences
- Anatomy
- Heads
- Anatomy
- Medical sciences
Object type(s)
- visual works
- prints
- Social sciences
Other number(s)
Ruland p.235 B.II.4-9
