Other Frescoes
Other Frescoes
The birth of Erechtheus
c.1820-1830Etching with engraving | 27.5 x 23.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853891
The National Art Library holds a volume containing 13 unnumbered plates which comprise 12 outline etchings after frescoes by Raphael and a view of Cardinal Bibbiena's bathroom (see RCIN 853856 for another impression of this view); most of the prints are signed by Cesaretti, with two signed by Ferdinando Mori.
Cardinal Bibbiena had a close friendship with Raphael, patronising him on a number of occasions and, it would seem, facilitating the betrothal of the artist to his niece. In addition to the stufetta, Raphael's workshop also painted Cardinal Bibbiena's loggia. Both spaces were designed in a manner imitating ancient Roman painted decoration, and included depictions of episodes from Ovid, grotesques and ornamental motifs. The stufetta was rediscovered in the nineteenth century and survives in a much damaged form today; the loggetta was not rediscovered until the twentieth century.
Creator(s)
Serafino Cesaretti (etcher)
After a work by the workshop of Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
220 / Top
Half of a Fleur de lys in a circle
27.5 x 23.5 cm (sheet of paper)
24.6 x 19.5 cm (platemark)
Vulcano e Pallade
- Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Subject(s)
- Places
- Europe
- Italy
- Lazio [Italy]
- Rome [Lazio]
- Vatican City [Rome]
- Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
- Bathroom (stufetta) of Cardinal Bibbiena [Vatican Palace]
- Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
- Vatican City [Rome]
- Rome [Lazio]
- Lazio [Italy]
- Italy
- Europe
- Places
Bibliographic reference(s)
pp.192-94 (Jones/Penny 1983 : Jones, R. and Penny, N. Raphael, 1983)
pp.324-25 (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))