Today at the Vatican, visitors head straight for the Michelangelo, but it wasn't always that way in the past. For centuries, the favorite masterpieces were the classical statues, but above all, the Raphael Loggia. For generations of artists, the Loggia was the supreme model of inspiration. It was an art school for all of Europe, and enjoyed immense success. In Saint Petersburg, at the end of the eighteenth century, Catherine II of Russia had full-sized reproductions of them made and placed in the immense Hermitage museum: it is probably the most famous copy of this masterpiece.
We can say that it reached the apogee of its success in the last quarter of the eighteenth century thanks to the valuable engravings by Ottaviani and Volpato, which
We can say that it reached the apogee of its success in the last quarter of the eighteenth century thanks to the valuable engravings by Ottaviani and Volpato, which