The frescoes in the Vatican Palace commissioned by Popes Julius II and Leo X
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520)
Study for the figure of one the Muses in the 'Parnassus' c.1853-76
Albumen print | 23.5 x 20.9 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852504
A photograph of the verso of a drawing by Raphael (c.1510) now in the Albertina, Vienna (inv. no.219v). The drawing is a preparatory study for the muse seen from the rear, standing on the extreme right of the group around Apollo in Raphael's fresco of Parnassus, painted in c.1510-11 in the Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican. A photograph of the recto can be found at RCIN 852487.
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Creator(s)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
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23.5 x 20.9 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)
- Religion & Theology
- Religions and faiths
- Religions of antiquity
- Classical mythology
- Muses
- Classical mythology
- Religions of antiquity
- Religions and faiths
- Places
- Europe
- Greece
- Mount Parnassus [Greece]
- Greece
- Europe
- visual works
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Other number(s)
Ruland p.188 C.I.89
Bibliographic reference(s)
Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford p.192, no.240v
Cordellier/Py 1992 : Raphael : son atelier, ses copistes, 1992 / par Dominique Cordellier et Bernadette Py, Paris (Inventaire general des dessins Italiens ; V / sous la direction de Francoise Viatte) p.135, under no.162
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