Life and Legend of the Virgin Mary
Life and Legend of the Virgin Mary
GIOVANNI ANTONIO DA BRESCIA (ACTIVE C. 1500-10)
The Presentation of the Virgin
c.1525Engraving | 30.1 x 20.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851408
This engraving is supposed to reproduce a lost design (by Raphael or his workshop) possibly related to one of the predella scenes of the 'Monteluce Altarpiece'. Second state. Lettered with attribution of the design to Raphael: R. VR. Signed with the engraver's monogram at lower right. Lettered with description of the subject at lower left: Representattio della Madonna.
The main panel - now in the Pinacoteca Vaticana, Vatican City (inv. no.40359; see RCIN 851401) - was executed by Giulio Romano and Giovanni Francesco Penni in 1525, but was originally commissioned from Raphael in 1505 by the nuns of Santa Chiara of Monteluce, Perugia. The predella - currently housed in the Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria at Perugia - was entrusted to Berto di Giovanni in 1505 and completed in c.1524-5.
It has been suggested that a drawing in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (inv. no.4265) might have served as modello for this engraving (see Cordellier/Py 1992, no.992).
Creator(s)
Giovanni Antonio da Brescia (active c. 1500-10) (engraver)
After a work attributed to Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
472.
30.1 x 20.4 cm (sheet of paper)
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Subject(s)
- Religion & Theology
- Religions and faiths
- Christianity
- Life of the Virgin Mary
- Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple
- Life of the Virgin Mary
- Christianity
- Religions and faiths
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
- Architecture
- Ecclesiastical & religious architecture
- Non-Christian religious architecture
- Temples
- Non-Christian religious architecture
- Ecclesiastical & religious architecture
- Architecture
- Religion & Theology
Bibliographic reference(s)
p.215, no.V.4 (Raphael Invenit 1985 : Bernini Pezzini, G. et al., 1985. Raphael Invenit. Stampe di Raffaello nelle Collezioni dell'Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome)
pp.588-592, under no.992 (Cordellier/Py 1992 : Raphael : son atelier, ses copistes, 1992 / par Dominique Cordellier et Bernadette Py, Paris (Inventaire general des dessins Italiens ; V / sous la direction de Francoise Viatte))
