VRA Core 4 Example 38: Copy of fresco
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VRA Core 4 Example 38: Copy of fresco
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<display>after Raphael (Italian painter, 1483-1520); Anton Raphael Mengs (German painter, 1728-1779); Hugh Smithson Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland (British patron, 1712-1786)</display>
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<name vocab="ULAN" refid="500023578" type="personal">Raphael</name>
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<earliestDate>1483</earliestDate>
<latestDate>1520</latestDate>
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<culture>Italian</culture>
<role>painter</role>
<attribution>after</attribution>
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<name vocab="ULAN" refid="500009824" type="personal">Mengs, Anton Raphael</name>
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<earliestDate>1728</earliestDate>
<latestDate>1779</latestDate>
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<culture>German</culture>
<role>painter</role>
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<name vocab="LCNAF" refid="no2008042632" type="personal">Northumberland, Hugh Percy, Duke of</name>
<dates type="life">
<earliestDate>1712</earliestDate>
<latestDate>1786</latestDate>
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<culture>British</culture>
<role>patron</role>
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<culturalContext>Italian</culturalContext>
<culturalContext>British</culturalContext>
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<dateSet>
<display>1752-1755 (creation)</display>
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<earliestDate>1752</earliestDate>
<latestDate>1755</latestDate>
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<display>Philosophy is one of a series of five copies of famous Italian frescoes commissioned from Mengs and other artists by the Earl of Northumberland in 1752 to hang in the long gallery in Northumberland House (for the other four see C.M. Kauffmann, Catalogue of Foreign Paintings, vol I, London, 1973, pp. 189-90). When Northumberland House was demolished in 1874, the painting was moved and eventually gifted to the V&A in 1926. Raphael's fresco of Philosophy, known as the School of Athens, was executed between 1508-1511 and fills a lunette in the Stanza della Segnatura in the papal apartments in the Vatican. In order to adapt this enormous painting to a rectangular format without diminishing the size of the figures, Mengs has truncated and compressed the architectural elements and sculptural forms at the top, while inserting additional figures at the side. Where the original fresco is disturbed (on the left) by the top of a door, Mengs has inserted a plinth bearing his signature, the title and date, while repositioning the painted reliefs to suit this addition.</display>
<description source="V&A (Victoria and Albert Museum) [website]; http://www.vam.ac.uk (accessed 12/10/2013)">Philosophy is one of a series of five copies of famous Italian frescoes commissioned from Mengs and other artists by the Earl of Northumberland in 1752 to hang in the long gallery in Northumberland House (for the other four see C.M. Kauffmann, Catalogue of Foreign Paintings, vol I, London, 1973, pp. 189-90). When Northumberland House was demolished in 1874, the painting was moved and eventually gifted to the V&A in 1926. Raphael's fresco of Philosophy, known as the School of Athens, was executed between 1508-1511 and fills a lunette in the Stanza della Segnatura in the papal apartments in the Vatican. In order to adapt this enormous painting to a rectangular format without diminishing the size of the figures, Mengs has truncated and compressed the architectural elements and sculptural forms at the top, while inserting additional figures at the side. Where the original fresco is disturbed (on the left) by the top of a door, Mengs has inserted a plinth bearing his signature, the title and date, while repositioning the painted reliefs to suit this addition.</description>
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<display>Inscribed: PHILOSPH.OPVS RAPHAELIS EX. AUTOGRAPHO PINX. RAPH. MENGS. MD CCLV</display>
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<display>Victoria and Albert Museum (London, England, United Kingdom) P.36-1926</display>
<notes>Given by the Duke of Northumberland, 1926</notes>
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<name type="geographic" vocab="ULAN" refid="500302040" extent="organization">Victoria and Albert Museum</name>
<name type="geographic" vocab="TGN" refid="7011781" extent="inhabited place">London</name>
<name type="geographic" vocab="TGN" refid="7002445" extent="country">England</name>
<name type="geographic" vocab="TGN" refid="7008591" extent="nation">United Kingdom</name>
<name type="geographic" vocab="TGN" refid="1000003" extent="continent">Europe</name>
<refid type="accession">P.36-1926</refid>
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<materialSet>
<display>oil paint on canvas</display>
<notes/>
<material/>
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<measurementsSet>
<display>425 cm (height) x 840 cm (width)</display>
<notes/>
<measurements type="height" unit="cm">425</measurements>
<measurements type="width" unit="cm">840</measurements>
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<display/>
<relation type="copyAfter" refid="38" relids="w_39" source="Core 4 Sample Database (VCat)">School of Athens</relation>
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<display>Core 4 Sample Database (VCat)</display>
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<name>Core 4 Sample Database (VCat)</name>
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<stylePeriodSet>
<display>Eighteenth century; Renaissance</display>
<stylePeriod vocab="LCSAF" refid="sh 85041401">Eighteenth century</stylePeriod>
<stylePeriod vocab="AAT" refid="300021140">Renaissance</stylePeriod>
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<subjectSet>
<display>allegorical; historical; portraits; scientific or medical; Classical education; Humanism; Raphael</display>
<notes/>
<subject>
<term type="personalName" vocab="ULAN" refid="500023578">Raphael</term>
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<subject>
<term type="conceptTopic" vocab="LCSAF" refid="sh 85062902 ">Humanism</term>
</subject>
<subject>
<term type="descriptiveTopic" vocab="LCNAF" refid="sh 85026700">Classical education</term>
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<techniqueSet>
<display>oil painting (technique)</display>
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<technique vocab="AAT" refid="300178684">oil painting (technique)</technique>
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<display>School of Athens [copy]</display>
<title type="descriptive" pref="true" xml:lang="en">School of Athens [copy]</title>
<title type="repository" pref="false" xml:lang="en">Copy of Raphael's 'School of Athens' in the Vatican</title>
<title type="cited" pref="false" xml:lang="en">Philosophy</title>
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<worktypeSet>
<display>copies (derivative objects); reproductions; replicas; paintings (visual works); oil paintings (visual works)</display>
<worktype vocab="AAT" refid="300015642">replica</worktype>
<worktype vocab="AAT" refid="300033799">oil painting (visual work)</worktype>
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<measurementsSet>
<display>18 MB</display>
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<measurements/>
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<rightsSet>
<display>undetermined</display>
<rights/>
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<sourceSet>
<display>V&A (Victoria and Albert Museum) [website]; http://www.vam.ac.uk</display>
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<name/>
<refid type="URI">http://www.vam.ac.uk</refid>
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<titleSet>
<display>Overall view (frame not original)</display>
<title type="generalView">Overall view (frame not original)</title>
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<worktypeSet>
<display>digital image</display>
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<agentSet>
<display>Raphael (Italian painter, 1483-1520)</display>
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<agent>
<name vocab="ULAN" refid="500023578" type="personal">Raphael</name>
<dates type="life">
<earliestDate>1483</earliestDate>
<latestDate>1520</latestDate>
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<culture>Italian</culture>
<role>painter</role>
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<culturalContextSet>
<culturalContext>Italian</culturalContext>
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<dateSet>
<display>1509-1510 (creation)</display>
<date type="creation">
<earliestDate>1509</earliestDate>
<latestDate>1510</latestDate>
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<display>The Stanza della segnatura ("Room of the Signatura") was the first to be decorated by Raphael's frescoes. It was the study housing the library of Julius II, and the council chamber for the Apostolic Signatura, where most of the important papal documents were signed and sealed. The artist's concept brings into harmony the spirits of Antiquity and Christianity and reflects the contents of the pope's library with themes of theology (the Disputa, west wall), philosophy (School of Athens, east wall), jurisprudence, and the poetic arts (Parnassus, north wall). The theme of this room is worldly and spiritual wisdom and the harmony which Renaissance humanists perceived between Christian teaching and Greek philosophy. Toward the end of 1509, Raphael began work on the east wall. This second painting, entitled The School of Athens, represents the degrees of knowledge or the truth acquired through reason. Tradition holds that many of the philosophers, mathematicians and scientists are portraits of Raphael's contemporaries and that he included a self-portrait as well.</display>
<description source="Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/ (accessed 12/16/2013)">The Stanza della segnatura ("Room of the Signatura") was the first to be decorated by Raphael's frescoes. It was the study housing the library of Julius II, and the council chamber for the Apostolic Signatura, where most of the important papal documents were signed and sealed. The artist's concept brings into harmony the spirits of Antiquity and Christianity and reflects the contents of the pope's library with themes of theology (the Disputa, west wall), philosophy (School of Athens, east wall), jurisprudence, and the poetic arts (Parnassus, north wall). The theme of this room is worldly and spiritual wisdom and the harmony which Renaissance humanists perceived between Christian teaching and Greek philosophy. Toward the end of 1509, Raphael began work on the east wall. This second painting, entitled The School of Athens, represents the degrees of knowledge or the truth acquired through reason. Tradition holds that many of the philosophers, mathematicians and scientists are portraits of Raphael's contemporaries and that he included a self-portrait as well.</description>
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<display>Vatican, The (Rome, Holy See, Lazio, Italy)</display>
<notes>Apostolic Palace, Stanza della segnatura</notes>
<location type="repository">
<name type="geographic" vocab="ULAN" refid="500311298" extent="site">Vatican, The</name>
<name type="geographic" vocab="TGN" refid="7001168" extent="nation">Rome, Holy See</name>
<name type="geographic" vocab="TGN" refid="7003080" extent="region">Lazio</name>
<name type="geographic" vocab="TGN" refid="1000080" extent="nation">Italy</name>
<name type="geographic" vocab="TGN" refid="1000003" extent="continent">Europe</name>
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<materialSet>
<display>pigment on plaster</display>
<notes/>
<material/>
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<measurementsSet>
<display>196.9 in (height) x 275.6 in (width)</display>
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<measurements type="height" unit="in">196.9</measurements>
<measurements type="width" unit="in">275.6</measurements>
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<display>Core 4 Sample Database (VCat)</display>
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<name>Core 4 Sample Database (VCat)</name>
</source>
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<stylePeriodSet>
<display>Renaissance</display>
<stylePeriod vocab="AAT" refid="300021140">Renaissance</stylePeriod>
</stylePeriodSet>
<subjectSet>
<display>allegorical; historical; portraits; scientific or medical; Classical education; Humanism</display>
<notes/>
<subject>
<term type="descriptiveTopic" vocab="LCNAF" refid="sh 85026700">Classical education</term>
</subject>
<subject>
<term type="conceptTopic" vocab="LCSAF" refid="sh 85062902 ">Humanism</term>
</subject>
</subjectSet>
<techniqueSet>
<display>fresco painting (technique)</display>
<notes/>
<technique vocab="AAT" refid="300053357">fresco painting (technique)</technique>
</techniqueSet>
<titleSet>
<display>School of Athens</display>
<title type="cited" pref="true" xml:lang="en">School of Athens</title>
<title type="cited" pref="false" xml:lang="en">Philosophy</title>
<title type="cited" pref="false" xml:lang="it">Scuola di Atene</title>
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<worktypeSet>
<display>paintings (visual works); frescoes (paintings)</display>
<worktype vocab="AAT" refid="300177433">fresco (painting)</worktype>
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</work>
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