Vatican Frescoes
AFTER? RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)
Study of a seated bishop and standing deacons
c.1853-76Albumen print | 13.2 x 15.7 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852811
A photograph of the verso of a drawing now in the Kunstmuseum in Düsseldorf (inv. no.F.P. 11v). The drawing is generally thought to be a preparatory study (by Raphael or one of his pupils) for the fresco of 'The Coronation of Charlemagne', painted in the Stanza dell'Incendio in the Vatican in c.1516-17. The study connects with a seated bishop depicted in the left background of the fresco, and with two deacons taking part in the coronation ceremony.
Creator(s)
After? Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
13.2 x 15.7 cm (sheet of paper)
- Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-78)
Subject(s)
- Religion & Theology
- Religions and faiths
- Christianity
- Christian church in general
- Church government. Ecclesiastical organization
- Clergy
- Bishops
- Deacons
- Clergy
- Church government. Ecclesiastical organization
- Christian church in general
- Christianity
- Religions and faiths
- Social sciences
- Ethnology
- Public life
- Coronations
- Public life
- Ethnology
- Religion & Theology
Bibliographic reference(s)
p.629, no.509 (Knab/Mitsch/Oberhuber 1983 : Raffaello. I disegni 1983 : I disegni. (Catalogo dei Disegni a cura di Oberhuber, Ferino Pagden, Huber), Florence 1983)
p.227, no.372v (Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford)
