Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' c.1785-1835
Engravings | RCIN 852469
Pietro Fontana (1762-1837)
Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of Apollo [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835
Pietro Fontana (1762-1837)
Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a muse [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835
Pietro Fontana (1762-1837)
Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a muse [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835
Pietro Fontana (1762-1837)
Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a muse [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835
Pietro Fontana (1762-1837)
Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a muse [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835
Pietro Fontana (1762-1837)
Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a muse [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835
Pietro Fontana (1762-1837)
Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a muse [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835
Pietro Fontana (1762-1837)
Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a muse [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835
Pietro Fontana (1762-1837)
Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a poet [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835
Pietro Fontana (1762-1837)
Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a poet [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835
Pietro Fontana (1762-1837)
Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a poet [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835
Pietro Fontana (1762-1837)
Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of Sappho [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835
Pietro Fontana (1762-1837)
Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a poet [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835
Pietro Fontana (1762-1837)
Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a poet [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835
Pietro Fontana (1762-1837)
Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a poet [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835
Pietro Fontana (1762-1837)
Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a poet [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835
Pietro Fontana (1762-1837)
Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of Homer [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835
Pietro Fontana (1762-1837)
Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of Virgil [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835
Pietro Fontana (1762-1837)
Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a muse [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835
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A set of twenty 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 with production details and identification of the figure represented. The prints were published in Raccolta delle teste dei filosofi, dei Poeti, colle nove Muse ed Apollo, e di altri uomini illustri dipinti da Raffaelle nella Scuola d'Atene e nel Parnasso al Vaticano, a series engraved by a number of different artists after designs by Luigi Agricola. For a set of engravings from the same series reproducing heads from The School of Athens, see RCIN 852538.a-o.
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Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
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Tauriscus 1819 : Tauriscus, E, 1819. Catalogues des estampes gravees d'apres Rafael, Frankurt p.77, no.15
Raphael Invenit 1985 : G. Bernini Pezzini et al., Raphael Invenit. Stampe di Raffaello nelle Collezioni dell'Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome, 1985 pp.36-37, nos.12-18 (entries by Grazia Bernini Pezzini)