Other Frescoes
Other Frescoes
The Almighty
published 1847Etching with engraving | 49.0 x 64.8 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853910
A print by Ludwig Grüner reproducing the lunette fresco The Almighty, now in the Louvre, Paris (inv.no.R.F.48) designed by Raphael and executed by his workshop c.1513-20 in the chapel of the Villa Magliana, the papal villa in the Roman campagna. Signed with the printmaker's monograph at bottom right and lettered with attribution of the composition to Raphael below image. India laid. Plate 5 in Ludwig Grüner, I freschi nella cappella della Villa Magliana, London, 1847.
The Magliana chapel frescoes were commissioned from Raphael by Pope Leo X. They were detached from the chapel in the nineteenth century and fragments of two of them are now in the Louvre, Paris, and the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Narbonne.
Creator(s)
Ludwig Grüner (1801-82) (etcher)
Ludwig Grüner : 183 Regent Street, London (editor)
49.0 x 64.8 cm (sheet of paper)
31.9 x 47.8 cm (platemark)
31.2 x 47.2 cm (sheet of paper)
- Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Subject(s)
- Religion & Theology
- Religions and faiths
- Christianity
- God (Christianity)
- Angels, demons, devils, saints
- Angels
- Christianity
- Religions and faiths
- Religion & Theology
Bibliographic reference(s)
pp.119-21 (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.509-10 (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))
