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 Virgil c.1853-76
Albumen print | 32.1 x 21.7 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852496
A photograph of a drawing by Raphael (c.1510) now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no.inv. no.WA1846.182v). The drapery study is for the figure of Virgil, standing a little behind Homer to the left of the central group in Raphael's fresco of Parnassus, painted in c.1510-11 in the Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican.
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Creator(s)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
Subject(s)
Virgil (70-19 BC) -
32.1 x 21.7 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.81
Bibliographic reference(s)
Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford p.192, no.238r
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