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Copy after Raphael’s fresco representing the ‘Poets on Mount Parnassus’ in the Stanza della Segnatura (Vatican Palace, Rome, 1510-11), 1864-66

Cesari Mariannecci

1865

watercolor

From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum

Impressionism Realism Late 19th Century

Dominant colour

Copy after Raphael’s fresco representing the ‘Poets on Mount Parnassus’ in the Stanza della Segnatura (Vatican Palace, Rome, 1510-11), 1864-66 is a 1865 watercolor by Cesari Mariannecci, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.

Who painted this?: Cesari Mariannecci
When & what style?: 1865 · Impressionism
Where can I see it?: Victoria and Albert Museum

The story of this work

Overview

Cesare Mariannecci’s 1864–66 watercolour is a copy of Raphael’s 1510–11 fresco *Poets on Mount Parnassus* in the Vatican’s Stanza della Segnatura, depicting Apollo singing at the center with the Muses, surrounded by poets from Western history. The lunette format includes a border of blue and yellow geometric patterns and painted-marble elements, while a marble frieze is visible below the fresco on either side of the entryway. Executed for the Arundel Society, the work was later reproduced as a chromolithograph in 1873 before entering the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1993.

Read the full account in the museum source.