Vatican Frescoes
AFTER RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)
Study for Dante's robe
c.1853-76Albumen print | 26.0 x 18.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852479
A photograph of a drawing by Raphael (c.1510) currently in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle (RCIN 912760v). The drapery study connects with the figure of Dante, standing in the upper left of 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)
26.0 x 18.0 cm (sheet of paper)
- Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Subject(s)
- Poets
- Places
- Europe
- Greece
- Mount Parnassus [Greece]
- Greece
- Europe
Bibliographic reference(s)
p.192, no.241r (Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford)
p.160, under no.56 (Raphael in der Albertina 1983 : aus Anlass des 500. Geburtstages des Künstlers, Vienna 1983)
pp.73-6, no.18v (Clayton 1999 : Clayton, M. Raphael and his Circle. Drawings from Windsor Castle, London)
