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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

AFTER RAPHAEL (1483-1520)

The School of Athens

after 1860

Carbon print | 61.3 x 77.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852532

A photograph of Raphael's School of Athens, painted in c.1509-10 in the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican. Lower left corner torn off. Annotated in pencil on the back. Not in Ruland (1876).
  • Creator(s)

    After Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)

    Subject(s)

    Plato (427-347 BC)
    Aristotle (384-322 BC)
    Diogenes (d. c. 323 BC)
    Euclid (active 300 BC)
    Ptolemy (c. 100-c. 178)
    Zoroaster
    Socrates (469-399 BC)
  • annotation: PF. 33 A. [crossed out] / PF. 26 F [back, centre, in pencil]

    annotation: .86 Fresques Rome [back, lower right corner]

  • 61.3 x 77.4 cm (sheet of paper)

  • Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (after 1876)

  • Subject(s)
    • Places
      • Europe
        • Italy
          • Lazio [Italy]
            • Rome [Lazio]
              • Vatican City [Rome]
                • Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
                  • Stanza della Segnatura [Vatican Palace]
                    • Vatican-Stanza della Segnatura-School of Athens
    Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs
  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    Chapman/Plazzotta/Henry 2004 : Chapman, H, Plazzotta, C, Henry, T. Raphael. From Urbino to Rome. London, 2004 pp.51-55

    Other number(s)

    Ruland p.190 D.5a(add)