Portraits
Portraits
AFTER RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)
A sonnet ("como non podde dir...")
c.1853-1876Albumen print | 27.4 x 20.3 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 850157
A photograph of a sonnet written on the verso of a drawing by Raphael (c.1508-1509) now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no. WA1846.188). Annotated on the verso.
This drawing is on the verso of a sheet depicting various studies. The heads relate to the young man standing in the left foreground of the Disputa (The Disputation of the Holy Sacrament), painted in the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican between 1508 and 1511. The angels also appear in the fresco at either side of the Holy Dove. See RCIN 852412 for a photograph of the recto.
This drawing is on the verso of a sheet depicting various studies. The heads relate to the young man standing in the left foreground of the Disputa (The Disputation of the Holy Sacrament), painted in the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican between 1508 and 1511. The angels also appear in the fresco at either side of the Holy Dove. See RCIN 852412 for a photograph of the recto.
Creator(s)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (draughtsman)
bottom
27.4 x 20.3 cm (sheet of paper)
Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Subject(s)
- Language, Linguistics and Literature
- Literature
- Poetry
- Sonnets
- Poetry
- Literature
- Religion & Theology
- Religions and faiths
- Christianity
- Angels, demons, devils, saints
- Angels
- Angels, demons, devils, saints
- Christianity
- Religions and faiths
- Places
- Europe
- Italy
- Lazio [Italy]
- Rome [Lazio]
- Vatican City [Rome]
- Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
- Stanza della Segnatura [Vatican Palace]
- Vatican-Stanza della Segnatura-Disputa
- Stanza della Segnatura [Vatican Palace]
- Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
- Vatican City [Rome]
- Rome [Lazio]
- Lazio [Italy]
- Italy
- Europe
- Language, Linguistics and Literature
Bibliographic reference(s)
p.187, no.220v (Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford)
