Poesis: Picta in fornice imminet Parnasso

Raphael (1483-1520) (after a work of)

Nocchi, Bernardino (1741-1812)

Morghen, Raphael (1758-1833)


Item type:
print
Date of creation:
1781
Height:
41.5 cm  (16 5/16 in.)
Width:
37.4 cm  (14 3/4 in.)
Technique / Medium:
etching and engraving
Place of creation:
Roma

Additional titles

Poetry: Painted in the hanging vault of Parnassus

    Item location

  • Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
    [Museum inv. no.: E. 661 A.]41.5 x 37.4 cm.

  • Biblioteka Narodowa (Warszawa)
    [Museum inv. no.: G.24382]41.3 x 37.4 cm.

Description

Poesis is seated with a lyre while two putto are both holding stones carved with the NVMINE and AFFLATVR. Raph. Sanctius pinxit ; Bernardinus Nocchi delineavit ; Raph.el Morghen sculp. "Engraved at Rome, 1781, after the original fresco on the ceiling of the Camera della Segnatura, Stanze of the Vatican, over the lunette representing Parnassus" (Halsey, p. 131).

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lyre [3501]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Halsey, Frederic Robert. Raphael Morghen's engraved works (New York: G.P. Putnam, 1885) 131.

RIdIM record id

1314