The frescoes in the Vatican Palace commissioned by Popes Julius II and Leo X
After a work by the workshop of Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520)
The erection of St Peter's Basilica, and corpses being picked up from the river Tiber c.1853-76
Albumen print | 9.6 x 30.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853008
A photograph of a drawing now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (inv. no.4305). The drawing has been described as a preparatory study by the workshop of Raphael, or a copy after such, for an unexecuted monochrome intended for the Sala di Costantino in the Vatican. Scholars have often attributed the drawing to Francesco Penni.
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Creator(s)
After a work by the workshop of Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
Subject(s)
Constantine I, The Great (272-337 AD) -
9.6 x 30.4 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)
- Places
- Europe
- Italy
- Lazio [Italy]
- Rome [Lazio]
- Vatican City [Rome]
- St. Peter's Basilica [Vatican City]
- Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
- Sala di Costantino [Vatican Palace]
- Vatican City [Rome]
- Rome [Lazio]
- Lazio [Italy]
- Italy
- Physiography
- Rivers
- Rivers of Italy
- River Tiber [Italy]
- Rivers of Italy
- Rivers
- Europe
- visual works
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Other number(s)
Ruland p.240 E.36
Bibliographic reference(s)
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.561, no.946
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