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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

AFTER RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)

Studies for Apollo playing the 'viola da braccio'

c.1853-76

Albumen print | 31.1 x 22.1 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852485

A photograph of a drawing by Raphael (c.1510) now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille (inv. no.Pl 452). The studies connect with the figure of Apollo, seated at the centre of the composition in Raphael's fresco of Parnassus, painted in c.1510-11 in the Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican.
  • Creator(s)

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

  • 31.1 x 22.1 cm (sheet of paper)

  • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

  • Subject(s)
    • Religion & Theology
      • Religions and faiths
        • Religions of antiquity
          • Classical mythology
            • Apollo (myth)
    • Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
      • Music
        • Musical instruments
          • Viola da braccio (or violin)
    • Places
      • Europe
        • Greece
          • Mount Parnassus [Greece]
  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    p.191, no.237v (Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford)

    pp.187-8, no.537r (Brejon de Lavergnée 1997 : Brejon de Lavergnée, B, 1997. Catalogue des dessins Italiens. Collections du Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Paris)