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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

    AFTER A WORK COPYING GIULIO ROMANO (ROME C. 1499-MANTUA 1546)

    The division of the lands

    c.1853-76

    Albumen print | 16.9 x 23.9 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853583

    A photograph of a drawing catalogued by Ruland (1876) as then being in the Royal Library of Turin. Ruland thought the drawing to be a copy of one in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle (RCIN 912728; see also RCIN 853582 for a photograph of this drawing), which he considered to be the original sketch for the fresco 'The division of the lands' painted by the workshop of Raphael (c.1517-19) in the vault of the tenth bay of the Raphael Loggia in the Vatican. RCIN 912728 is now attributed to Giulio Romano, and thought probably an elaboration of a study by Raphael for the fresco.

    • Creator(s)

      After a work copying Giulio Romano (Rome c. 1499-Mantua 1546) (artist)

    • 16.9 x 23.9 cm (sheet of paper)

    • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

    • Subject(s)
      • Religion & Theology
        • Religions and faiths
          • Christianity
            • Bible & Holy Scripture
              • Old Testament
    • Bibliographic reference(s)

      p.315, no. 807 (P&W : Popham, A.E. & Wilde, J., 1949. The Italian Drawings of the XV and XVI Centuries in the Collection of His Majesty The King at Windsor Castle, London)

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