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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

      AFTER A WORK ATTRIBUTED TO RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)

      Two rows of bishops shown seated

      c.1853-76

      Albumen print | 13.8 x 17.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852810

      A photograph of the recto of a drawing now in the Kunstmuseum in Düsseldorf (inv. no.F.P. 11r). The drawing is generally thought to be a preparatory study by Raphael for the fresco of 'The Coronation of Charlemagne', painted in the Stanza dell'Incendio in the Vatican in c.1516-17. The study connects with the group of bishops shown seated in the right foreground of the fresco.

      • Creator(s)

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

      • 13.8 x 17.0 cm (sheet of paper)

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

      • Subject(s)
        • Religion & Theology
          • Religions and faiths
            • Christianity
              • Christian church in general
                • Church government. Ecclesiastical organization
                  • Clergy
                    • Bishops
        • Social sciences
          • Ethnology
            • Public life
              • Coronations
      • Bibliographic reference(s)

        p.629, no.507 (Knab/Mitsch/Oberhuber 1983 : Raffaello. I disegni 1983 : I disegni. (Catalogo dei Disegni a cura di Oberhuber, Ferino Pagden, Huber), Florence 1983)

        p.227, no.372r (Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford)

        pp.87-8, fig.10 (in S. Prosperi Valenti Rodinò, 'Provenienzen der Zeichnungen in der Sammlung Lambert Krahes', pp.77-93) (Akademie. Sammlung. Krahe 2013 : Akademie. Sammlung. Krahe. Eine Künstlersammlung für Künstler. Brink, S. and Wismer, B., eds. Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf 2013)

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