Life and Legend of the Virgin Mary
Life and Legend of the Virgin Mary
RAFFAELLO PERSICHINI (B. 1790)
The Presentation in the Temple [predella scene, 'Oddi Altarpiece']
c.1810-1870Engraving with etching | 65.0 x 86.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851381
A print after the 'Presentation in the Temple', the right scene from the predella of the so-called 'Oddi Altarpiece' (or 'Pala Oddi') which was executed by Raphael in c.1502-03 and is now in the Pinacoteca Vaticana, Vatican City (inv. no.335). Lettered with Bible quote and production details. Stamped with the blind stamp of the Calcografia Camerale (di Roma) at lower right (variant of Lugt 426e).
Creator(s)
Raffaello Persichini (b. 1790) (engraver)
Raffaello Persichini (b. 1790) (printmaker)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
Ignazio, Podio (active 1820s) (designer)
Rome : Calcografia Camerale (publisher)
17 C [upper centre]; I.33 [lower centre, below image]; A.I.33. [lower right]
65.0 x 86.4 cm (sheet of paper)
37.8 x 71.5 cm (image)
48.8 x 76.4 cm (platemark)
ECCE POSITUS EST HIC IN RUINAM, ET IN RESURRECTIONEM MULTORUM IN ISRAEL, ET SIGNUM, CUI CONTRADICETUR Lucae II.34.
- 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
- Devotional Images of Christ
- Virgin & Child
- 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)
pp.136-7, no.8D (Capellen 2001 : Capellen, JM, 2001. Raphael : the paintings. Volume 1, The Beginning in Umbria and Florence ca.1500-1508 )
