RAFFAELLO Sanzio
(b. 1483, Urbino, d. 1520, Roma)

The Parnassus (detail)

1509-10
Fresco, width of detail: 92 cm
Stanza della Segnatura, Palazzi Pontifici, Vatican

Raphael used Ariadne, a newly discovered classical sculpture in the Cortile del Belvedere, as a model for the muse to the left of Apollo.