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Raphael at the Vatican

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Raphael at the Vatican
ArtistHorace Vernet
Year1832
TypeOil on canvas, history painting
Dimensions392 cm × 300 cm (154 in × 120 in)
LocationLouvre, Paris

Raphael at the Vatican (French: Raphaël au Vatican) is an 1832 history painting by the French artist Horace Vernet. It depicts an encounter in Rome between the Renaissance artists Raphael and Michelangelo. It was inspired by a passage in the biography of Raphael written by Quatremère de Quincy. Raphael is shown at a makeshift easel drawing a peasant woman with her child and surrounded by a crowd of attentive students while Michelangelo is shown in the bottom left corner.[1] Above them are Pope Julius II and Leonardo da Vinci.[2]

Vernet produced the work while he was director of the French Academy in Rome. It was exhibited at the Salon of 1833.[3] Today it is in the collection of the Louvre in Paris.[4] [5]

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  • Harkett, Daniel & Hornstein, Katie (ed.) Horace Vernet and the Thresholds of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture. Dartmouth College Press, 2017.
  • Waller, Susan. The Invention of the Model: Artists and Models in Paris, 1830-1870. Routledge, 2017.