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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

      AFTER? RAPHAEL (1483-1520)

      Moses strikes the rock at Horeb

      c.1853-76

      Salted paper print | 22.3 x 32.7 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853537

      A photograph of a drawing in the Uffizi, Florence (inv.no.509 E), attributed, with a question mark, to Raphael. The drawing is squared up in black chalk, presumably for transfer, and may be the modello for the fresco Moses strikes the rock at Horeb painted by the workshop of Raphael (c.1517-19) in the vault of the eighth bay of the Raphael Loggia in the Vatican.

      Dacos (see Bibliographic References) has attributed this drawing, and the co-execution (alongside Pellegrino) of the fresco itself, to Tommaso Vincidor, who designed tapestries for Pope Leo X.

      • Creator(s)

        After? Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)

        Subject(s)

        Moses(OT)

      • annotation: p.221, XXXII.4 [verso, along bottom, in ink]

      • 22.3 x 32.7 cm (sheet of paper)

      • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

      • Subject(s)
        • Religion & Theology
          • Religions and faiths
            • Christianity
              • Bible & Holy Scripture
                • Old Testament
        Object type(s)
          • visual works
            • photographs
      • Bibliographic reference(s)

        Inventario Uffizi. Disegni Esposti I 1986 : Disegni esposti ; v. 1, 1986 / a cura di Annamaria Petrioli Tofani, Florence (Gabinetto disegni e stampe degli Uffizi) p.228, no.509E

        Dacos 2008: Dacos, N., The Loggia of Raphael: A Vatican Art Treasure, 2008 p.224, pl.161

        Other number(s)

        Ruland p.221 B.XXXII.6

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