Vatican Frescoes
Vatican Frescoes
AFTER A WORK ATTRIBUTED TO RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)
Two male studies
c.1853-76Albumen print | 26.3 x 36.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852925
A photograph of a drawing by Raphael (c.1519-20) now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no.WA1846.210). The drawing is preparatory for figures of soldiers climbing into a boat painted in the extreme right foreground of the fresco of 'The Battle of Constantine at the Milvian Bridge', executed by Raphael's workshop in the Sala di Costantino in the Vatican after designs by the master.
Creator(s)
After a work attributed to Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
26.3 x 36.4 cm (sheet of paper)
- Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Subject(s)
- Social sciences
- Military affairs
- Wars, Campaigns & Battles
- War operations
- Battles
- Wars
- Wars of the first century to the tenth century
- Rome and the Barbarians (305-400) (war)
- Battle of the Milvian Bridge, 312 (Rome and the Barbarians)
- Rome and the Barbarians (305-400) (war)
- Wars of the first century to the tenth century
- War operations
- Wars, Campaigns & Battles
- Military affairs
- Social sciences
Bibliographic reference(s)
p.243, no.441r (Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford)
