LUDWIG GRÜNER (1801-82)

Architectural and ornamental details of the chapel of St John the Baptist, Villa Magliana

published 1847

Chromolithograph with gold | 33.3 x 46.6 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853900

A chromolithograph illustrating a plan, cross-sections and details of the decoration of the chapel in the Villa Magliana, the papal villa in the Roman campagna. Raphael and his workshop executed frescoes in the villa's chapel dedicated to St John the Baptist c.1513-20; the frescoes were detached in the nineteenth century and fragments of two of them are now in the Louvre, Paris, and the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Narbonne. Lettered with numbers, presumably referring to a key, and a scale Numbered at top right: T.1. Plate 1 in Ludwig Grüner, I freschi nella cappella della Villa Magliana, London, 1847.

Grüner's publication comprises an introduction to the Villa Magliana frescoes, written by Ernst Platner, and 5 illustrative plates. This was Grüner's second publication devoted exclusively to Raphael, and he would go on to execute another 5 volumes focusing on different works by the artist.

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Ludwig Grüner (1801-82) (etcher)

Ludwig Grüner : 183 Regent Street, London (editor)

Colnaghi & Co. [London] (publisher)
33.3 x 46.6 cm (sheet of paper)
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
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Raphael dans les collections françaises 1983 : Hommage a Raphael. Raphael dans les collections françaises: (Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 15 novembre 1983-13 fevrier 1984), Paris pp.119-21

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) pp.509-10

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Ruland p.279 A.VII.2

Architectural and ornamental details of the chapel of St John the Baptist, Villa Magliana

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