Vatican Frescoes
PAOLO FIDANZA (B. 1731)
Set of twenty-four heads from the 'Parnassus'
c.1757-85Etchings | RCIN 852467
A set of twenty-four prints reproducing the heads of some of the figures depicted in the fresco of Parnassus, painted by Raphael in c.1510-11 in the Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican. Each print is lettered along the bottom margin and numbered at top 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.
Creator(s)
Paolo Fidanza (b. 1731) (printmaker)
After Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)
Subject(s)
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)Homer (active 850 BC?)SapphoVirgil (70-19 BC)Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-75)- Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Subject(s)
- People
- Poets
- Religion & Theology
- Religions and faiths
- Religions of antiquity
- Classical mythology
- Muses
- Apollo (myth)
- Classical mythology
- Religions of antiquity
- Religions and faiths
- Places
- Europe
- Mount Parnassus [Greece]
- Italy
- Lazio [Italy]
- Rome [Lazio]
- Vatican City [Rome]
- Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
- Stanza della Segnatura [Vatican Palace]
- Vatican-Stanza della Segnatura-Parnassus
- Stanza della Segnatura [Vatican Palace]
- Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
- Vatican City [Rome]
- Rome [Lazio]
- Lazio [Italy]
- Europe
- Language, Linguistics and Literature
- Literature
- Poetry
- Literature
- Geography
- Physiography
- Mountains
- Physiography
Object type(s)
- visual works
- prints
- People
Other number(s)
Ruland p.185 C.9-32
