Set of fifteen prints reproducing heads from 'The School of Athens' c.1790-1840
Engraving | RCIN 852538
Pietro Ghigi (first half 19th century)
Master: Set of fifteen prints reproducing heads from 'The School of Athens' Item: Head of a bearded man [from 'The School of Athens'] c.1790-1840
Pietro Ghigi (first half 19th century)
Master: Set of fifteen prints reproducing heads from 'The School of Athens' Item: Head of a man wearing a helmet [from 'The School of Athens'] c.1790-1840
Pietro Ghigi (first half 19th century)
Master: Set of fifteen prints reproducing heads from 'The School of Athens' Item: Head of Socrates [from 'The School of Athens'] c.1790-1840
Pietro Ghigi (first half 19th century)
Master: Set of fifteen prints reproducing heads from 'The School of Athens' Item: Head of a man wearing a beret [from 'The School of Athens'] c.1790-1840
Pietro Ghigi (first half 19th century)
Master: Set of fifteen prints reproducing heads from 'The School of Athens' Item: Head of a bearded man [from 'The School of Athens'] c.1790-1840
Pietro Ghigi (first half 19th century)
Master: Set of fifteen prints reproducing heads from 'The School of Athens' Item: Head of a youth wearing a helmet [from 'The School of Athens'] c.1790-1840
Pietro Ghigi (first half 19th century)
Master: Set of fifteen prints reproducing heads from 'The School of Athens' Item: Head of a man crowned with wine-leaves [from 'The School of Athens'] c.1790-1840
Pietro Ghigi (first half 19th century)
Master: Set of fifteen prints reproducing heads from 'The School of Athens' Item: Head of a bearded man [from 'The School of Athens'] c.1790-1840
Pietro Ghigi (first half 19th century)
Master: Set of fifteen prints reproducing heads from 'The School of Athens' Item: Head of a bearded man wearing a head covering [from 'The School of Athens'] c.1790-1840
Pietro Ghigi (first half 19th century)
Master: Set of fifteen prints reproducing heads from 'The School of Athens' Item: Head of a bearded man [from 'The School of Athens'] c.1790-1840
Pietro Ghigi (first half 19th century)
Master: Set of fifteen prints reproducing heads from 'The School of Athens' Item: Head of a bearded man wearing a head covering [from 'The School of Athens'] c.1790-1840
Pietro Ghigi (first half 19th century)
Master: Set of fifteen prints reproducing heads from 'The School of Athens' Item: Head of Euclid [from 'The School of Athens'] c.1790-1840
Pietro Ghigi (first half 19th century)
Master: Set of fifteen prints reproducing heads from 'The School of Athens' Item: Head of Perugino [from 'The School of Athens'] c.1790-1840
Pietro Ghigi (first half 19th century)
Master: Set of fifteen prints reproducing heads from 'The School of Athens' Item: Head of Plato [from 'The School of Athens'] c.1790-1840
Pietro Ghigi (first half 19th century)
Master: Set of fifteen prints reproducing heads from 'The School of Athens' Item: Head of Diogenes [from 'The School of Athens'] c.1790-1840
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A set of fifteen prints reproducing heads of some of the figures depicted in Raphael's fresco of The School of Athens, painted in c.1509-10 in the Stanza della Segnatura in the 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 Parnassus, see RCIN 852469.a-t.
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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.40-41, nos.13-19 (entries by Grazia Bernini Pezzini)