The frescoes in the Vatican Palace commissioned by Popes Julius II and Leo X
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520)
Study for eight figures in the 'Parnassus' c.1853-76
Salted paper print | 28.1 x 18.2 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852501
A photograph of a drawing by Raphael (c.1510) now in the British Museum, London (inv. no.Pp,1.73). The drawing is a preparatory study for eight figures depicted in the left-hand portion of Raphael's fresco of Parnassus, painted in c.1510-11 in the Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican. It differs in a few details from the fresco. Formerly rejected as by Raphael, the drawing is now universally accepted as by his hand.
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Creator(s)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
Subject(s)
SapphoDante Alighieri (1265-1321)Homer (active 850 BC?) -
28.1 x 18.2 cm (sheet of paper)
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Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
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Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
Subject(s)
- People
- Poets
- Places
- Europe
- Greece
- Mount Parnassus [Greece]
- Greece
- Europe
- visual works
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Other number(s)
Ruland p.187 C.I.86
Bibliographic reference(s)
Catalogue of the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. v. P. Pouncey and J.A.Gere, Raphael and His Circle (1962); p.37, no.44
Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford p.193, no.243
Jacoby/Sonnabend 2012: edited by J. Jacoby and M. Sonnabend, Frankfurt/Main 2012 pp.149-52, no.21
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