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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

      AFTER A WORK COPYING RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)

      The Parnassus

      c.1830-40

      Lithograph | 29.4 x 44.9 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852476

      A lithographic facsimile of a drawing currently in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no.WA1846.272). This was made for, but not published in, ‘Lawrence Gallery. A series of facsimiles of original drawings by Raffaelle da Urbino’, London 1841.

      The drawing is a copy of a lost original design by Raphael, apparently an early study for the composition of the Parnassus fresco, painted in c.1510-11 in the Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican.

      • Creator(s)

        After a work copying Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)

      • 29.4 x 44.9 cm (sheet of paper)

      • Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

      • Subject(s)
        • Places
          • Europe
            • Greece
              • Mount Parnassus [Greece]
        • Language, Linguistics and Literature
          • Literature
            • Poetry
        • Poets
        • Religion & Theology
          • Religions and faiths
            • Religions of antiquity
              • Classical mythology
                • Muses
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