Holy Families & Madonna and Child
Holy Families & Madonna and Child
ANONYMOUS, 16TH CENTURY
The Virgin and Child
c.1510-25Engraving | 23.1 x 15.8 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 850935
This engraving is a copy in the same direction of a print by Marcantonio Raimondi (RCIN 850934: probably after a lost drawing by Raphael related to the so-called ‘Madonna di Foligno’, a painting by the master (c.1512) now in the Pinacoteca Vaticana, Vatican City). Photographs of the 'Madonna di Foligno' can be found at RCINs 850929, 850930.
Showing the Virgin sitting on clouds, with her hand resting on the right thigh of the Child, who looks down while grasping her mantle.
Creator(s)
Anonymous, 16th century (engraver)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
After Marcantonio Raimondi (c. 1480-1534) (engraver)
23.1 x 15.8 cm (sheet of paper)
- Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Subject(s)
- Religion & Theology
- Religions and faiths
- Christianity
- Devotional Images of Christ
- Virgin & Child
- Life of Christ
- Infancy of Christ
- Christ Child
- Infancy of Christ
- Devotional Images of Christ
- Christianity
- Religions and faiths
- Natural Sciences & Mathematics
- Earth sciences
- Meteorology
- Clouds
- Meteorology
- Earth sciences
- Religion & Theology
Bibliographic reference(s)
p.194, no.XXIV.2 (entry 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)
