Vatican Frescoes
Vatican Frescoes
ADOLPHE ANDRÉ WACQUEZ (B. 1814)
Studies for Apollo playing the 'viola da braccio'
published 1858Crayon-manner, printed in brown ink | 31.6 x 22.7 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852486
A facsimile of a drawing by Raphael (c.1510) now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille (inv. no.Pl 452). Published in 'Choix de dessins de Raphael qui font partie de la collection Wicar à Lille', Paris 1858.
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)
Adolphe André Wacquez (b. 1814) (printmaker)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
31.6 x 22.7 cm (sheet of paper)
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Subject(s)
- Religion & Theology
- Religions and faiths
- Religions of antiquity
- Classical mythology
- Apollo (myth)
- Classical mythology
- Religions of antiquity
- Religions and faiths
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
- Music
- Musical instruments
- Viola da braccio (or violin)
- Musical instruments
- Music
- Places
- Europe
- Greece
- Mount Parnassus [Greece]
- Greece
- Europe
- Religion & Theology
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)
