Joseph Mallord William Turner Details of the Decorations of Raphael's Loggia in the Vatican: Plan of the Frescoes of 'Raphael's Bible' from the Second Vault of the Ceiling 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 15 Verso:
Details of the Decorations of Raphael’s Loggia in the Vatican: Plan of the Frescoes of ‘Raphael’s Bible’ from the Second Vault of the Ceiling 1819
D14958
Turner Bequest CLXXIX 15 a
Turner Bequest CLXXIX 15 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 112 x 186 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil within the diagram [see main catalogue entry]
Inscribed by the artist in pencil within the diagram [see main catalogue entry]
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
References
1909
A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.527 as ‘Plan of part of the ceiling of the Logge (Raphael’s Bible)’.
1965
Jerrold Ziff, ‘Copies of Claude’s Paintings in the Sketch Books of J.M.W. Turner, Gazette des beaux-arts, vol.65, January 1965, pp.56, 64 note 24.
1974
Martin Butlin, Andrew Wilton and John Gage, Turner 1775–1851, exhibition catalogue, Royal Academy, London 1974, p.92 under no.236.
1979
Andrew Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg 1979, p.147.
1982
Evelyn Joll and Martin Butlin, L’opera completa di Turner 1793–1829, Classici dell’arte, Milan 1982, p.107 under no.228.
1982
Cecilia Powell, ‘Exhibition Review: Turner’s First Visit to Italy in 1819’, Turner Studies, Summer 1982, vol.2, no.1, p.48.
1984
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, p.137 under no.228.
1984
Cecilia Powell, ‘Turner on Classic Ground: His Visits to Central and Southern Italy and Related Paintings and Drawings’, unpublished Ph.D thesis, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London 1984, pp.148, 151 note 2, 235.
1987
Robert E. McVaugh, ‘Turner and Rome, Raphael and the Fornarina’, Studies in Romanticism, no.26, Autumn 1987, pp.371–2.
1987
Cecilia Powell, Turner in the South: Rome, Naples, Florence, New Haven and London 1987, p.65 note 1.
1997
James Hamilton, Turner: A Life, London 1997, p.205 note 1.
1998
James Hamilton, Turner and the Scientists, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1998, p.68.
2009
Ian Warrell, ‘Painters Painted: The Cult of the Artist’, in David Solkin (ed.), Turner and the Masters, exhibition catalogue, Tate Britain, London 2009, p.229 note 1 under no.63.
2010
David Solkin and Guillaume Faroult (eds.), Turner et ses peintres, exhibition catalogue, Galeries nationales, Grand Palais, Paris 2010, pp.196, 262 note 12.
2011
Nicola Moorby, ‘Turner’s Sketches for “Rome from the Vatican”: Some Recent Discoveries’, Turner Society News, no.115, Spring 2011, pp.5, 10 notes 16 and 20.
The diagrammatic sketch on this page represents a plan of the frescoes for ‘Raphael’s Bible’ in the second ceiling vault of the Loggia of Raphael in the Vatican Palace. On the left-hand side Turner has made a rough outline copy of The Labours of Adam and Eve by ?Tommaso Vincidor (1493–1536),1 whilst he has used written notes to mark the position of the ‘Creation of Eve’ by Vincidor,2 and ‘The [?Forbidden] Tree’ (i.e. The Fall or Original Sin) by Vincidor and Pellegrino da Modena (1460–1523).3 A more detailed study of the same vault can be seen on the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 16 (D14959). The Creation of Eve is clearly visible in Turner’s painted recreation of the loggia within the right-hand side of the composition of Rome from the Vatican.
Nicola Moorby
January 2010
How to cite
Nicola Moorby, ‘Details of the Decorations of Raphael’s Loggia in the Vatican: Plan of the Frescoes of ‘Raphael’s Bible’ from the Second Vault of the Ceiling 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2010, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www