The frescoes in the Vatican Palace commissioned by Popes Julius II and Leo X
Adolphe Braun (1812-77)
The Parnassus c.1860-76
Carbon print | 33.5 x 45.8 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852462
A photograph of the the fresco of the Parnassus, painted by Raphael in c.1510-11 in the Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican. Ruland (1876) described the photograph as the work of Adolph Braun.
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Creator(s)
Adolphe Braun (1812-77) (photographer)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
Subject(s)
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)Homer (active 850 BC?)SapphoVirgil (70-19 BC)Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-75) -
33.5 x 45.8 cm (sheet of paper)
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Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1860-76)
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Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
Subject(s)
- People
- 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
- visual works
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Other number(s)
Ruland p.185 C.4
Bibliographic reference(s)
Chapman/Plazzotta/Henry 2004 : Chapman, H, Plazzotta, C, Henry, T. Raphael. From Urbino to Rome. London, 2004 pp.51-5, fig.38
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