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Description: | Ant s.b.l. "Fran. Aquila del et incid"; inscr b.l. "Raph sanct Urb. Inv. in Pal Vat."; inscr. b. "In fornice primi conclavis"; inscr. b.r. "Romae typis dominici de Rossi"; inscr. b.l. "Quanquam Raphael minime servilem indolem a natura fuerit assecutus: Saepe tamem suas coegit ingenis vires alienis inventus obtemperare . . ." PRINT AQUILA, Francesco Foraone; (Italian; 1676-1740) AFTER RAPHAEL, Raffaello Santi; (Italian; 1483-1520) no 10 of a set after Raphael. Pope Julius II Della Rovere commissioned 25 year old Raphael Sanzio in 1508 to paint the frescos in his four room apartment on the top floor. This is after a fresco in the Sala of Heliodorus I, which comprised the Freeing of St Peter, Heliodorus pursued and felled in the Temple and the Mass at Bolsena. The ceiling includes medallions illustrating the following episodes of the Old Testament: Noah Leaving the Ark, the Dream of Jacob, the Sacrifice of Abraham, the Burning Bush. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | CEILING : STANZA DI ELIODORO : ORNAMENT : GROTESQUE : RAPHAEL STANZA : VATICAN : FRESCO : VOLUME : SET : ESSEX : NOAH : JACOB : ABRAHAM : BURNING BUSH : PATRIARCH : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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