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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

AFTER A WORK COPYING RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)

The Parnassus

c.1830-40

Lithograph | 29.4 x 44.9 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852476

A lithographic facsimile of a drawing currently in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no.WA1846.272). This was made for, but not published in, ‘Lawrence Gallery. A series of facsimiles of original drawings by Raffaelle da Urbino’, London 1841.

The drawing is a copy of a lost original design by Raphael, apparently an early study for the composition of the Parnassus fresco, painted in c.1510-11 in the Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican.
  • Creator(s)

    After a work copying Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)

  • 29.4 x 44.9 cm (sheet of paper)

  • Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

  • Subject(s)
    • Places
      • Europe
        • Greece
          • Mount Parnassus [Greece]
    • Language, Linguistics and Literature
      • Literature
        • Poetry
    • Poets
    • Religion & Theology
      • Religions and faiths
        • Religions of antiquity
          • Classical mythology
            • Muses