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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

    MARIA KATHARINA PRESTEL (1747-94)

    The School of Athens

    dated 1776

    Etching | 49.3 x 71.3 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852547

    A facsimile of a drawing attributed on plate to Raphael, when in the Praun collection in Nuremberg. Lettered with attribution and location of the drawing. With engraver's name and date. Annotated in pencil on both sides. Not listed in Ruland (1876). Published in Johann Gottlieb Prestel, '
    Dessins des meilleurs Peintres d'Italie, d'Allemagne, et des Pays-Bas, du Cabinet de Monsieur Paul de Praun à Nuremberg, 1780, plate 5. Another impression of this facsimile can be found at RCIN 852546.

    Ruland (1876) noticed that the drawing reproduced in this print resembles a sheet by Parmigianino now in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle (RCIN 990533; a photograph at RCIN 852545), which is thought to be a copy after a lost modello by Raphael of The School of Athens distinct from the cartoon now in the Ambrosiana, Milan. For further discussion, see Bibliographic References.

    • Creator(s)

      Maria Katharina Prestel (1747-94) (etcher)

      After Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)

    • annotation: Pf. 26. 7. [front, lower centre, in pencil]

    • 49.3 x 71.3 cm (sheet of paper)

      33.6 x 49.9 cm (platemark)

    • 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
          • prints
    • Bibliographic reference(s)

      P&W : Popham, A.E. & Wilde, J., 1949. The Italian Drawings of the XV and XVI Centuries in the Collection of His Majesty The King at Windsor Castle, London pp.284-5, no.598r

      Haverkamp-Begemann 1988 : Haverkamp-Begemann, E. Creative Copies. Interpretative Drawings from Michelangelo to Picasso, 1988. pp.47-9, no.8 (entry by Judith Cohen)

      Höper 2001 : Höper, C. Raffael und die Folgen, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001 p.378, no.F 2.13

      Other number(s)

      Ruland p.190 D.86a(add)

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