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      AFTER RAPHAEL (1483-1520)

      Heads of a muse [from the 'Parnassus']

      c.1700-1800

      Stipple | 26.9 x 19.2 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852466

      An anonymous print reproducing the bust of the muse seated to the left of Apollo in the fresco of Parnassus, painted by Raphael in c.1510-11 in the Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican. Mounted on a backing cardboard by means of two paper strips. Not in Ruland (1876). Annotated in pencil on the front of the backing cardboard.

      • Creator(s)

        After Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)

      • 26.9 x 19.2 cm (sheet of paper)

        24.0 x 16.5 cm (platemark)

        49.2 x 36.0 cm (backing cardboard) (sheet of paper)

      • CALLIOPE / the first of the Nine Muses who invented the use of / Letters and heroic poetry was represented by Raphael / in his Mount Parnassus

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

      • Subject(s)
        • Religion & Theology
          • Religions and faiths
            • Religions of antiquity
              • Classical mythology
                • Muses
        • Places
          • Europe
            • Mount Parnassus [Greece]
            • Italy
              • Lazio [Italy]
                • Rome [Lazio]
                  • Vatican City [Rome]
                    • Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
                      • Stanza della Segnatura [Vatican Palace]
                        • Vatican-Stanza della Segnatura-Parnassus
        • Geography
          • Physiography
            • Mountains
        Object type(s)
          • visual works
            • prints
      • Bibliographic reference(s)

        Höper 2001 : Höper, C. Raffael und die Folgen, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001 p.385, no.F 3.14

        Other number(s)

        Ruland p.185 C.8a(add)

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