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Other Frescoes

Other Frescoes

MARCANTONIO RAIMONDI (C. 1480-1534)

Jupiter and Cupid

1518-1520

Engraving | 30.6 x 20.6 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853951

An engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi reproducing, it is generally believed, a lost drawing by Raphael for the pendentive fresco depicting Jupiter and Cupid from the vault of the entrance loggia of the Farnesina, Agostino Chigi's villa in Rome, which was frescoed with mythological subjects by Raphael's workshop c.1518. Raimondi's monogrammatic device of an empty tablet bottom centre (Nagler 1558). Trimmed within platemark. On watermarked paper.

The fresco decoration in the Farnesina illustrates the classical fable of Cupid and Psyche, a story which was also frequently used to decorate Florentine wedding chests. Raphael's fresco scheme comprises two primary scenes in the vault (painted to resemble tapestries), accompanied by a series of episodes painted in the pendentives. The whole is encompassed within a fictive pergola, which gives the viewer the impression of looking up into the heavens. Only the upper part of the loggia is painted (the vault and its supporting pendentives and spandrels).
  • Creator(s)

    Marcantonio Raimondi (c. 1480-1534) (engraver)

    After? Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)

  • [indecipherable]

  • 30.6 x 20.6 cm (sheet of paper)

  • Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

  • Subject(s)
    • Religion & Theology
      • Religions and faiths
        • Religions of antiquity
          • Classical mythology
            • Jupiter (myth)
            • Cupid
  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    p.152, VII.8 (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)
    p.349, no.E8.8. (Höper 2001 : Höper, C. Raffael und die Folgen, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001)
    p.374, no.550 (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))
    p.237, no.412r (Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford)
    pp.183-89 (Jones/Penny 1983 : Jones, R. and Penny, N. Raphael, 1983)