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The frescoes in the Vatican Palace commissioned by Popes Julius II and Leo X

After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520)

The Liberation of St Peter c.1860-76

Carbon print | 28.3 x 43.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852737

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A photograph of a drawing by Raphael now in the Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi, Florence (inv. no.536E). The drawing is a first idea for the fresco of The Liberation of St Peter, painted by Raphael in the Stanza di Eliodoro in the Vatican with the collaboration of his workshop artists.
  • Creator(s)

    After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)

    Subject(s)
    Saint Peter
  • 28.3 x 43.5 cm (sheet of paper)

  • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1860-76)

  • Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs
    Subject(s)
    • Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
      • Architecture
        • Secular architecture
          • Prisons
    • Religion & Theology
      • Religions and faiths
        • Christianity
          • Angels, demons, devils, saints
            • Angels
  • Other number(s)

    Ruland p.203 E.6

    Bibliographic reference(s)

    Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford p.218, no.338

    Inventario Uffizi. Disegni Esposti I 1986 : Disegni esposti ; v. 1, 1986 / a cura di Annamaria Petrioli Tofani, Florence (Gabinetto disegni e stampe degli Uffizi) p.240, no.536E