Vatican Frescoes
WILLIAM BAMBRIDGE (1820-79)
The heads of Homer, Dante and another poet
date 1863Photozincograph | 34.8 x 24.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852478
A photozincograph of a drawing by Raphael (c.1510) currently in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle (RCIN 912760r). Lettered with production details.
The two heads at left correspond closely to those of Dante and Homer, standing in the upper left of Raphael's fresco of Parnassus, painted in c.1510-11 in the Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican. The head at upper right has been connected both with the poet standing above Sappho in the left foreground of the fresco, or with the figure of Virgil, standing immediately to the right of Homer. A photograph of the drawing at RCIN 852477.
The two heads at left correspond closely to those of Dante and Homer, standing in the upper left of Raphael's fresco of Parnassus, painted in c.1510-11 in the Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican. The head at upper right has been connected both with the poet standing above Sappho in the left foreground of the fresco, or with the figure of Virgil, standing immediately to the right of Homer. A photograph of the drawing at RCIN 852477.
Creator(s)
William Bambridge (1820-79) (photographer)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
34.8 x 24.5 cm (sheet of paper)
Studies for the Heads of Homer, Virgil, and Dante, in the "Parnassus"; by Raphael.
- Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Subject(s)
- Poets
- Places
- Europe
- Greece
- Mount Parnassus [Greece]
- Greece
- Europe
Bibliographic reference(s)
p.192, no.241v (Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford)
pp.73-6, no.18r (Clayton 1999 : Clayton, M. Raphael and his Circle. Drawings from Windsor Castle, London)
