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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

GAETANO BIANCHI (ACTIVE 18TH CENTURY)

Set of two prints reproducing figures from 'The School of Athens'

c.1700-50

Engraving | RCIN 852550

A set of two engravings reproducing groups of figures from Raphael's fresco of The School of Athens, painted in c.1509-10 in the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican.
  • Creator(s)

    Gaetano Bianchi (active 18th century) (engraver)

    After Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)

    Giovanni Paolo Melchiori (1664-1745) (designer)

  • 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
    • Philosophy & Psychology
      • Philosophers
    Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • prints
  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    Raphael Invenit 1985 : G. Bernini Pezzini et al., Raphael Invenit. Stampe di Raffaello nelle Collezioni dell'Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome, 1985 p.39, nos.6-7 (entries by Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodinò)

    Other number(s)

    Ruland p.190 D.89-90