The frescoes in the Vatican Palace commissioned by Popes Julius II and Leo X
Paolo Fidanza (b. 1731)
Set of ten heads from ''The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple' c.1757-85
Etching | RCIN 852685
![Master: Set of ten heads from ''The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple'
Item: Head of Pope Julius II [from 'The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple']](https://albert.rct.uk/sites/default/files/styles/rctr-scale-1300-500/public/collection-online/f/b/752396-1524584908.jpg?itok=PPhUWPqD "Master: Set of ten heads from ''The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple'
Item: Head of Pope Julius II [from 'The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple']")
A set of ten prints reproducing the heads of some of the figures depicted in Raphael's fresco of The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple, executed in 1511-12 in the Stanza di Eliodoro in the Vatican. Each print is lettered along the bottom margin and numbered at top/lower right. Probably from Tetes choisies de personnages illustres... published by Paolo 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.
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Creator(s)
Paolo Fidanza (b. 1731) (printmaker)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
Subject(s)
HeliodorusPope Julius II (1443-1513) -
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
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Object type(s)
- visual works
- prints
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
- Religion & Theology
- Religions and faiths
- Christianity
- Bible & Holy Scripture
- Old Testament
- Bible & Holy Scripture
- Christianity
- Religions and faiths
- visual works
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Other number(s)
Ruland p.200 B.15-24
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