A set of thirty-three prints reproducing heads from 'The School of Athens' published 1785
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Domenico Cunego (1726-1803)
Master: A set of thirty-three prints reproducing heads from 'The School of Athens' Item: Head of a bearded man [from 'The School of Athens'] published 1785
Domenico Cunego (1726-1803)
Master: A set of thirty-three prints reproducing heads from 'The School of Athens' Item: Head of a bearded man [from 'The School of Athens'] published 1785
Domenico Cunego (1726-1803)
Master: A set of thirty-three prints reproducing heads from 'The School of Athens' Item: Head of a youth [from 'The School of Athens'] published 1785
Domenico Cunego (1726-1803)
Master: A set of thirty-three prints reproducing heads from 'The School of Athens' Item: Head of a youth [from 'The School of Athens'] published 1785
Domenico Cunego (1726-1803)
Master: A set of thirty-three prints reproducing heads from 'The School of Athens' Item: Heads of a bearded man and of a child [from 'The School of Athens'] published 1785
Domenico Cunego (1726-1803)
Master: A set of thirty-three prints reproducing heads from 'The School of Athens' Item: Head of a man wearing a turban [from 'The School of Athens'] published 1785
Domenico Cunego (1726-1803)
Master: A set of thirty-three prints reproducing heads from 'The School of Athens' Item: Head of Diogenes [from 'The School of Athens'] published 1785
Domenico Cunego (1726-1803)
Master: A set of thirty-three prints reproducing heads from 'The School of Athens' Item: A young man writing in a notebook [from 'The School of Athens'] published 1785
Domenico Cunego (1726-1803)
Master: A set of thirty-three prints reproducing heads from 'The School of Athens' Item: A bearded man [from 'The School of Athens'] published 1785
Domenico Cunego (1726-1803)
Master: A set of thirty-three prints reproducing heads from 'The School of Athens' Item: A bearded man with covered head [from 'The School of Athens'] published 1785
Domenico Cunego (1726-1803)
Master: A set of thirty-three prints reproducing heads from 'The School of Athens' Item: The head of a bearded man with his right arm outstretched [from 'The School of Athens'] published 1785
Domenico Cunego (1726-1803)
Master: A set of thirty-three prints reproducing heads from 'The School of Athens' Item: Three disciples of Socrates [from 'The School of Athens'] published 1785
Domenico Cunego (1726-1803)
Master: A set of thirty-three prints reproducing heads from 'The School of Athens' Item: Head of a bearded man [from 'The School of Athens'] published 1785
Domenico Cunego (1726-1803)
Master: A set of thirty-three prints reproducing heads from 'The School of Athens' Item: Heads of five philosophers [from 'The School of Athens'] published 1785
Domenico Cunego (1726-1803)
Master: A set of thirty-three prints reproducing heads from 'The School of Athens' Item: Head of a bearded man [from 'The School of Athens'] published 1785
Domenico Cunego (1726-1803)
Master: A set of thirty-three prints reproducing heads from 'The School of Athens' Item: Heads of two bearded men [from 'The School of Athens'] published 1785
Domenico Cunego (1726-1803)
Master: A set of thirty-three prints reproducing heads from 'The School of Athens' Item: Head of a bearded man [from 'The School of Athens'] published 1785
Domenico Cunego (1726-1803)
Master: A set of thirty-three prints reproducing heads from 'The School of Athens' Item: Head of a bearded man [from 'The School of Athens'] published 1785
Domenico Cunego (1726-1803)
Master: A set of thirty-three prints reproducing heads from 'The School of Athens' Item: Head of a youth wearing a helmet [from 'The School of Athens'] published 1785
Domenico Cunego (1726-1803)
Master: A set of thirty-three prints reproducing heads from 'The School of Athens' Item: Head of Aristotle [from 'The School of Athens'] published 1785
Domenico Cunego (1726-1803)
Master: A set of thirty-three prints reproducing heads from 'The School of Athens' Item: Head of Heraclitus [from 'The School of Athens'] published 1785
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A set of thirty-three etchings reproducing heads of figures from Raphael's fresco of The School of Athens, painted in c.1509-10 in the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican; from Le LII Teste della celebre scuola d'Atene, dipinta da Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, disegnate in XL carte dal Cavalier Anton. Raffaello Mengs, incise da Dom. Cunego, a series of forty prints reproducing fifty-two heads from the fresco. The series was printed and published in Rome in 1785. The plates were engraved by Domenico Cunego after designs by Raphael Mengs, who is also the author of a full-size painted copy of the famous fresco now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (inv. no.P.36-1926). Each print is lettered along the bottom margin with production details. Some plates are numbered at top left; most of them are lettered with identification of the sitter.
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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.76, no.11