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Pietro Fontana (1762-1837)

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

Pietro Fontana (1762-1837)

Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of Dante [from the 'Parnassus] c.1785-1835

Description

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.

Provenance

Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
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Search the collection Pietro Fontana (1762-1837)
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Search the collection Pietro Ghigi (first half 19th century)
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Search the collection Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520)
(artist)

Search the collection Luigi Agricola (c. 1750- c. 1821)
(designer)

Search the collection Franzetti, Agapito : Rome
(publisher)

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Search the collection Horace (65-8 BC)

Search the collection Jacopo Sannazaro (1458-1530)

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)

Search the collection Francesco Petrarch (1304-74)

Search the collection Laura (Petrarch)

Search the collection Ovid (43 BC-17 AD)
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General Subject Prints
Object type(s)
visual works
prints
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People
Poets
Religion & Theology
Religions and faiths
Religions of antiquity
Classical mythology
Muses
Apollo (myth)
Places
Europe
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
Geography
Physiography
Mountains
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.186 C.I.35-54

Bibliographic reference(s)

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)

Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' c.1785-1835

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Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of Apollo [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835

Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a muse [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835

Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a muse [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835

Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a muse [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835

Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a muse [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835

Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a muse [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835

Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a muse [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835

Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a muse [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835

Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a poet [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835

Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a poet [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835

Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a poet [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835

Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of Sappho [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835

Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a poet [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835

Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a poet [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835

Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a poet [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835

Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a poet [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835

Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of Homer [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835

Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of Virgil [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835

Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a muse [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835

Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of Dante [from the 'Parnassus] c.1785-1835

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Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' c.1785-1835

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Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of Apollo [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835

Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a muse [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835

Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a muse [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835

Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a muse [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835

Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a muse [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835

Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a muse [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835

Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a muse [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835

Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a muse [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835

Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a poet [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835

Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a poet [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835

Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a poet [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835

Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of Sappho [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835

Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a poet [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835

Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a poet [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835

Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a poet [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835

Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a poet [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835

Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of Homer [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835

Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of Virgil [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835

Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of a muse [from the 'Parnassus'] c.1785-1835

Master: Set of twenty-two prints reproducing heads from the 'Parnassus' Item: Head of Dante [from the 'Parnassus] c.1785-1835

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