Holy Families & Madonna and Child
Holy Families & Madonna and Child
VINCENZO VITTORIA (DENIA 1658-ROME 1712)
The Virgin and Child with Angels and Saints [‘The Madonna di Foligno’]
published after 1709Etching | 42.5 x 27.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 850932
A reversed etching after the the so-called ‘Madonna di Foligno’, an arch-topped painting by Raphael (c.1512) now in the Pinacoteca Vaticana, Vatican City (inv. no.329). Lettered with production details.
The lettering indicates that the painting was in the Monastery of Sant’Anna in Foligno, when the print was published. Ruland (1876) catalogued the painting as being already in the Pinacoteca Vaticana. Second state retouched by the publisher Domenico de' Rossi, who inherited the print shop of his father Giovanni Giacomo de' Rossi in 1709, terminus post quem for the publication of this print.
Showing the Virgin sitting on clouds and supporting the Christ Child, surrounded by angels, while being worshipped by St John the Baptist and St Francis (lower right), and St Jerome and the donor Sigismondo dei Conti (lower left), who kneels down with clasped hands; an angel holding a blank tablet stands at lower centre; in a landscape.
The lettering indicates that the painting was in the Monastery of Sant’Anna in Foligno, when the print was published. Ruland (1876) catalogued the painting as being already in the Pinacoteca Vaticana. Second state retouched by the publisher Domenico de' Rossi, who inherited the print shop of his father Giovanni Giacomo de' Rossi in 1709, terminus post quem for the publication of this print.
Showing the Virgin sitting on clouds and supporting the Christ Child, surrounded by angels, while being worshipped by St John the Baptist and St Francis (lower right), and St Jerome and the donor Sigismondo dei Conti (lower left), who kneels down with clasped hands; an angel holding a blank tablet stands at lower centre; in a landscape.
Creator(s)
Vincenzo Vittoria (Denia 1658-Rome 1712) (etcher)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
Rome : Domenico de' Rossi : ad Templum S Mariae de Pace (publisher)
Cosimo III de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1642-1723) (dedicatee)
Vincenzo Vittoria (Denia 1658-Rome 1712) (dedicator)
42.5 x 27.5 cm (sheet of paper)
37.7 x 26.5 cm (image)
42.0 x 26.9 cm (platemark)
- 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
- Angels, demons, devils, saints
- Angels
- Devotional Images of Christ
- Christianity
- Religions and faiths
- Natural Sciences & Mathematics
- Earth sciences
- Meteorology
- Clouds
- Rainbows
- Meteorology
- Earth sciences
- Religion & Theology
Bibliographic reference(s)
pp. 98-106, no. 52 (Capellen 2005 : Capellen, JM, 2005. Raphael : the paintings. Volume 2, The Roman Religious Paintings ca.1508-1520 )
