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Architecture

Raphael's career as an architect saw him work on St Peter's Basilica, Vatican

AGOSTINO DEI MUSI (C. 1490-AFTER 1536)

A grotesque with satyrs and a triton

c.1530-1550

Engraving | 26.0 x 14.9 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 854232

An engraving by Agostino Veneziano depicting a grotesque with satyrs and a triton that, according to Bartsch, reproduces a drawing by Raphael (see Bibliographic References). Signed by the printmaker with a monogram. This is the first state of the print, without the signature of the publisher Antonio Salamanca. Trimmed within the platemark.

Passavant catalogued this print as being related to a larger series composed of twenty prints after drawings depicting grotesques by Giovanni da Udine (eighteen prints executed by Agostino Veneziano and two by Giacomo Francia: see RCINs 854234.a-t for these prints) (see Bibliographic References). 

On the basis of similarities of the motifs depicted in this print series with the frescoes in Castel Sant'Angelo executed by Perin del Vaga, it has been suggested that the inventions of Perin del Vaga could have been the model for the drawings reproduced in these prints (see Bibliographic References). 
  • Creator(s)

    Agostino dei Musi (c. 1490-after 1536) (printmaker)

    After? Giovanni da Udine (c. 1487-1564) (draughtsman)

    After a work previously attributed to Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (draughtsman)

    ? Antonio Salamanca (1500-62) (publisher)

  • 26.0 x 14.9 cm (sheet of paper)

  • Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

  • Subject(s)
    • Natural Sciences & Mathematics
      • Zoology
        • Animals
          • Mythical creatures
            • Satyrs
    • Religion & Theology
      • Religions and faiths
        • Religions of antiquity
          • Classical mythology
            • Triton (myth)
    • Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
      • Decorative motifs
        • Grotesques
  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    pp. 267, no. IV.2 (entry written by Stefania Massari) (Raphael Invenit 1985 : Bernini Pezzini, G. et al., 1985. Raphael Invenit. Stampe di Raffaello nelle Collezioni dell'Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome)