Copy after Raphael’s fresco representing the ‘Deliverance of St Peter from Prison’ in the Stanza di Eliodoro (Vatican Palace, Rome, 1511-12), 1864
1864
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1864
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Copy after Raphael’s fresco representing the ‘Deliverance of St Peter from Prison’ in the Stanza di Eliodoro (Vatican Palace, Rome, 1511-12), 1864 is a 1864 watercolor by Cesari Mariannecci, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This watercolor is a 1864 copy of Raphael’s Vatican fresco. It shows the moment an angel frees Saint Peter from prison. Mariannecci worked for the Arundel Society, which paid artists to copy great frescoes in the 1860s. It became a printed chromolithograph in 1865. Later, the National Gallery gave it to the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1993. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum.
In 1864, Cesare Mariannecci produced a watercolour copy of Raphael’s fresco *The Deliverance of Saint Peter from Prison* (1511–12), located in the Stanza di Eliodoro of the Vatican Palace. Commissioned by the Arundel Society, the work depicts an angel awakening Saint Peter in a Roman prison, guiding him past sleeping guards on the right while startled guards on the left point to his empty cell. Executed on paperboard, the composition is framed by a lunette adorned with marble motifs above a doorway. The watercolour is signed “C. Mariannecci” in the lower right corner.
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In the 1860s, Mariannecci spent years hunched over watercolors in Rome, squinting at Raphael’s frescoes until her brush matched their curves.
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