Parnassus, Ferdinand Ruscheweyh, 1785-1846, 1830, Graphic Art, Copper Engraving, It might seem surprising that there are small cupids flying among the trees in this copperplate engraving but none in Raphael’s (1483-1520) fresco The, Parnassus, which Marcantonio Raimondi has partly copied. Raphael’s monumental fresco itself adorns an arched niche in the Vatican. It is not clear whether Raimondi based his print on a drawing by Raphael – in which case the drawing has been lost – or whether on his own initiative – or perhaps that of Raphael – he made a rather free version of Raphael’s fresco

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