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Paolo Fidanza (b. 1731)

Set of twenty-four heads from the 'Parnassus' c.1757-85

Etchings | RCIN 852467

Master: Set of twenty-four heads from the 'Parnassus'
Item: Head of a poet [from the 'Parnassus']

Paolo Fidanza (b. 1731)

Master: Set of twenty-four heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a poet [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1757-85

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Master: Set of twenty-four heads from the 'Parnassus'
Item: Head of Sappho [from the 'Parnassus']

Paolo Fidanza (b. 1731)

Master: Set of twenty-four heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of Sappho [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1757-85

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Master: Set of twenty-four heads from the 'Parnassus'
Item: Head of a youth [from the 'Parnassus']

Paolo Fidanza (b. 1731)

Master: Set of twenty-four heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a youth [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1757-85

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Master: Set of twenty-four heads from the 'Parnassus'
Item: Head of a poet [from the 'Parnassus']

Paolo Fidanza (b. 1731)

Master: Set of twenty-four heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a poet [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1757-85

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Master: Set of twenty-four heads from the 'Parnassus'
Item: Head of a poet [from the 'Parnassus']

Paolo Fidanza (b. 1731)

Master: Set of twenty-four heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a poet [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1757-85

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Master: Set of twenty-four heads from the 'Parnassus'
Item: Head of a poet [from the 'Parnassus']

Paolo Fidanza (b. 1731)

Master: Set of twenty-four heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a poet [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1757-85

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Master: Set of twenty-four heads from the 'Parnassus'
Item: Head of Dante [from 'The Disputa']

Paolo Fidanza (b. 1731)

Master: Set of twenty-four heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of Dante [from 'The Disputa'] c.1757-85

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Master: Set of twenty-four heads from the 'Parnassus'
Item: Head of a poet [from the 'Parnassus']

Paolo Fidanza (b. 1731)

Master: Set of twenty-four heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a poet [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1757-85

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Master: Set of twenty-four heads from the 'Parnassus'
Item: Head of a muse [from the 'Parnassus']

Paolo Fidanza (b. 1731)

Master: Set of twenty-four heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a muse [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1757-85

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Master: Set of twenty-four heads from the 'Parnassus'
Item: Head of Virgil [from the 'Parnassus']

Paolo Fidanza (b. 1731)

Master: Set of twenty-four heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of Virgil [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1757-85

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Master: Set of twenty-four heads from the 'Parnassus'
Item: Head of poet [from the 'Parnassus']

Paolo Fidanza (b. 1731)

Master: Set of twenty-four heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of poet [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1757-85

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Master: Set of twenty-four heads from the 'Parnassus'
Item: Head of poet [from the 'Parnassus']

Paolo Fidanza (b. 1731)

Master: Set of twenty-four heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of poet [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1757-85

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Master: Set of twenty-four heads from the 'Parnassus'
Item: Head of Homer [from the 'Parnassus']

Paolo Fidanza (b. 1731)

Master: Set of twenty-four heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of Homer [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1757-85

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Master: Set of twenty-four heads from the 'Parnassus'
Item: Head of a poet [from the 'Parnassus']

Paolo Fidanza (b. 1731)

Master: Set of twenty-four heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a poet [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1757-85

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Master: Set of twenty-four heads from the 'Parnassus'
Item: Head of a poet [from the 'Parnassus']

Paolo Fidanza (b. 1731)

Master: Set of twenty-four heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a poet [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1757-85

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Master: Set of twenty-four heads from the 'Parnassus'
Item: Head of a poet [from the 'Parnassus']

Paolo Fidanza (b. 1731)

Master: Set of twenty-four heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a poet [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1757-85

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Master: Set of twenty-four heads from the 'Parnassus'
Item: Head of a muse [from the 'Parnassus']

Paolo Fidanza (b. 1731)

Master: Set of twenty-four heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a muse [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1757-85

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Master: Set of twenty-four heads from the 'Parnassus'
Item: Head of a muse [from the 'Parnassus']

Paolo Fidanza (b. 1731)

Master: Set of twenty-four heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a muse [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1757-85

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Master: Set of twenty-four heads from the 'Parnassus'
Item: Head of a muse [from the 'Parnassus']

Paolo Fidanza (b. 1731)

Master: Set of twenty-four heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a muse [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1757-85

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Master: Set of twenty-four heads from the 'Parnassus'
Item: Head of a muse [from the 'Parnassus']

Paolo Fidanza (b. 1731)

Master: Set of twenty-four heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a muse [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1757-85

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Master: Set of twenty-four heads from the 'Parnassus'
Item: Head of a muse [from the 'Parnassus']

Paolo Fidanza (b. 1731)

Master: Set of twenty-four heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a muse [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1757-85

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Master: Set of twenty-four heads from the 'Parnassus'
Item: Head of Apollo [from the 'Parnassus']

Paolo Fidanza (b. 1731)

Master: Set of twenty-four heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of Apollo [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1757-85

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Description

A set of twenty-four prints reproducing the heads of some of the figures depicted in the fresco of Parnassus, painted by Raphael in c.1510-11 in the Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican. Each print is lettered along the bottom margin and numbered at top right. Probably from Tetes choisies de personnages illustres... published by Paolo Fidanza in Rome in 1785.

Paolo Fidanza became famous for publishing six volumes of prints of heads after Raphael between 1757 and 1763.

Provenance

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

Creator(s)

Search the collection Paolo Fidanza (b. 1731)
(printmaker)

After
Search the collection Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520)
(artist)

Subject(s)

Search the collection Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

Search the collection Homer (active 850 BC?)

Search the collection Sappho

Search the collection Virgil (70-19 BC)

Search the collection Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-75)
Physical properties

Medium and techniques

Etchings
Groupings
Category
General Subject Prints
Object type(s)
visual works
prints
Subject(s)
People
Poets
Religion & Theology
Religions and faiths
Religions of antiquity
Classical mythology
Muses
Apollo (myth)
Places
Europe
Greece
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
Language, Linguistics and Literature
Literature
Poetry
References

Other number(s)

Ruland : Ruland, C., 1876. The Works of Raphael Santi da Urbino as represented in the Raphael Collection in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle, formed by the Prince Consort, 1853-1861 and completed by Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Weimar – Ruland p.185 C.9-32

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