The Almighty

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.

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.