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The school of Athens: a gathering of ancient philosophers. Engraving by G. Volpato after G. Cades after Raphael.

Raphael, 1483-1520.
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[17--]

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Raphael Santius pinx. in aedibus vaticanis. Pio Sexto pont. max. bonarum artium restitutori ac vindici D.D.D. Joannes Volpato. Joseph Cades delineavit. Joannes Volpato sculpsit et vendit Romae.

Publication/Creation

Romae [Rome] : Joannes Volpato sculpsit et vendit, [17--]

Edition

[Second state]

Physical description

1 print : engraving ; platemark 39.1 x 51.4 cm

Publications note

G.B. Pezzini, S. Massari, S.P. Valenti Rodinò, Raphael invenit, Roma: Edizioni Quasar, 1985, p. 39
C.L. Joost-Gaugier, 'Ptolemy and Strabo and their conversation with Apelles and Protogenes', Renaissance quarterly, 1998, 51, 3, 760-783

Reference

Wellcome Library no. 545945i

Reproduction note

After a fresco by Raphael in the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican, painted about 1508-11

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