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Copy after Raphael’s ceiling fresco representing ‘Jurisprudence’ in the Stanza della Segnatura (Vatican Palace, Rome, 1508-9), 1864

Cesari Mariannecci

1864

watercolor

From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum

Impressionism Realism Late 19th Century Allegory

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Copy after Raphael’s ceiling fresco representing ‘Jurisprudence’ in the Stanza della Segnatura (Vatican Palace, Rome, 1508-9), 1864 is a 1864 watercolor by Cesari Mariannecci, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.

Who painted this?: Cesari Mariannecci
When & what style?: 1864 · Impressionism
Where can I see it?: Victoria and Albert Museum

The story of this work

Overview

A watercolour on paperboard, this 1864 work by Cesare Mariannecci reproduces the ceiling medallion of *Jurisprudence* from Raphael’s 1508–09 fresco in the Vatican’s Stanza della Segnatura. The allegorical figure, crowned in iron and draped in light pink with green shadows, holds an iron sword in her right hand and a scale in her left, seated on clouds flanked by putti bearing inscribed plaques. Surrounding her is a painted-marble circle framed by grotesque designs and Della Rovere acorn medallions, with Mariannecci’s signature dated 1864 in the lower right.

Read the full account in the museum source.