Key to the persons depicted in fresco in the Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican, Rome of The School of Athens (after Raphael)
Giovanni Battista Volpato (1633-1706)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
Unknown
Materials
paper
Measurements
270 x 400 mm
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 286575.1
Summary
Print, engraving, Key to the persons depicted in fresco in the Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican, Rome of The School of Athens (after Raphael) by Giovanni Battista Volpato (1633-1706). One of three pages of prints of 'effigies cognitae', heads of classical and other figures drawn in outline and named in a key. a. 23 heads are shown and named, the title being 'Effigies cognitae, in Scholae Atheniensis Tabula depictae...'. The fresco is in the Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican, Rome.
Marks and inscriptions
Effigies cognitae, in Scholae Atheniensis Tabula depictae... (on print a.)
Makers and roles
Giovanni Battista Volpato (1633-1706), engraver (printmaker) after Raphael (Urbino 1483 – Rome 1520), original artist