Vatican Frescoes
Vatican Frescoes
OSWALD UFER (1828-83)
The Parnassus
c.1848-1873Engraving | 67.7 x 87.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852460
A print reproducing the fresco of the Parnassus, painted by Raphael in c.1510-11 in the Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican. Lettered with production details. With coat of arms at lower centre (related to the Kingdom of Saxony) and head of Dante in profile at lower right. Annotated in pencil on both sides. Not in Ruland (1876).
Creator(s)
Oswald Ufer (1828-83) (engraver)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
Filippo Severati (1819-92) (designer)
Angelo Biggi (active 19th century) (printer)
p.185. I.2a.
Pf.25. C.I.2a / 852460
67.7 x 87.4 cm (sheet of paper)
56.1 x 73.3 cm (platemark)
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (after 1876)
Subject(s)
- Poets
- Religion & Theology
- Religions and faiths
- Religions of antiquity
- Classical mythology
- Muses
- Apollo (myth)
- Classical mythology
- Religions of antiquity
- Religions and faiths
- Places
- Europe
- Greece
- Mount Parnassus [Greece]
- Italy
- Lazio [Italy]
- Rome [Lazio]
- Vatican City [Rome]
- Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
- Stanza della Segnatura [Vatican Palace]
- Vatican-Stanza della Segnatura-Parnassus
- Stanza della Segnatura [Vatican Palace]
- Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
- Vatican City [Rome]
- Rome [Lazio]
- Lazio [Italy]
- Greece
- Europe
- Language, Linguistics and Literature
- Literature
- Poetry
- Literature
Bibliographic reference(s)
p.36, no.II.9 (entry by Grazia Bernini Pezzini) (Raphael Invenit 1985 : Bernini Pezzini, G. et al., 1985. Raphael Invenit. Stampe di Raffaello nelle Collezioni dell'Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome)
pp.51-5, fig.38 (Chapman/Plazzotta/Henry 2004 : Chapman, H, Plazzotta, C, Henry, T. Raphael. From Urbino to Rome. London, 2004)
