Vatican Frescoes
GIOVANNI VOLPATO (1733-1803)
The School of Athens, with key to identification
c.1775-85Engraving | RCIN 852524
A print reproducing the fresco of the School of Athens, painted by Raphael in c.1509-10 in the Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican. The print is mounted together with an engraving reproducing twenty-three heads from the fresco, with key to identification.
Creator(s)
Giovanni Volpato (1733-1803) (engraver)
After Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)
Subject(s)
Diogenes (d. c. 323 BC)Euclid (active 300 BC)Ptolemy (c. 100-c. 178)Plato (427-347 BC)Aristotle (384-322 BC)ZoroasterSocrates (469-399 BC)- Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
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
- Stanza della Segnatura [Vatican Palace]
- Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
- Vatican City [Rome]
- Rome [Lazio]
- Lazio [Italy]
- Italy
- Europe
Object type(s)
- visual works
- prints
- Places
Bibliographic reference(s)
Höper 2001 : Höper, C. Raffael und die Folgen, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001 p.378, no.F 2.12
Raphael Invenit 1985 : G. Bernini Pezzini et al., Raphael Invenit. Stampe di Raffaello nelle Collezioni dell'Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome, 1985 p.39, nos.IV.8-9 (entry by Grazia Bernini Pezzini)
Other number(s)
Ruland p.189 D.I.1
