Set of heads from 'The Fire in the Borgo' c.1750-85
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Paolo Fidanza (b. 1731)
Master: Set of heads from 'The Fire in the Borgo' Item: Head of a woman seen from the back [from 'The Fire in the Borgo'] c.1750-85
Paolo Fidanza (b. 1731)
Master: Set of heads from 'The Fire in the Borgo' Item: Head of a screaming woman [from 'The Fire in the Borgo'] c.1750-85
Paolo Fidanza (b. 1731)
Master: Set of heads from 'The Fire in the Borgo' Item: Head of a child [from 'The Fire in the Borgo'] c.1750-85
Paolo Fidanza (b. 1731)
Master: Set of heads from 'The Fire in the Borgo' Item: Head of a woman wearing a head cloth [from 'The Fire in the Borgo'] c.1750-85
Paolo Fidanza (b. 1731)
Master: Set of heads from 'The Fire in the Borgo' Item: Head of a young boy [from 'The Fire in the Borgo'] c.1750-85
Paolo Fidanza (b. 1731)
Master: Set of heads from 'The Fire in the Borgo' Item: Head of a woman [from 'The Fire in the Borgo'] c.1750-85
Paolo Fidanza (b. 1731)
Master: Set of heads from 'The Fire in the Borgo' Item: Head of a woman [from 'The Fire in the Borgo'] c.1750-85
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A set of eight prints reproducing heads of figures depicted in Raphael's fresco of The Fire in the Borgo, painted in the Stanza dell'Incendio in the Vatican with the collaboration of his workshop artists. All prints are lettered along the bottom margin and numbered at top right. Probably from Tetes choisies de personnages illustres... published by 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)
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