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Other Frescoes

Other Frescoes

    MARCANTONIO RAIMONDI (C. 1480-1534)

    The Martyrdom of St Cecilia

    c.1520-25

    Engraving | 23.8 x 40.1 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853902

    An engraving by Marcantonio which may have been made after a (heavily retouched) preparatory drawing in Dresden (inv.no. C168) by Raphael for the lunette fresco The Martyrdom of St Cecilia, fragments of which now survive in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Narbonne. The fresco was part of the decoration in the chapel of the Villa Magliana, the papal villa in the Roman campagna, executed by Raphael's workshop c.1513-20. Lettered in a cartouche with attribution of the composition to Raphael and with the printmaker's monogram. Trimmed on all sides. First state. Annotated on verso.

    The 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)

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

      After Raphael (1483-1520) (designer)

    • annotation: 224 [verso, top right corner, in ink]

    • 23.8 x 40.1 cm (sheet of paper)

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

    • Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • prints
    • Bibliographic reference(s)

      Shoemaker/Broun 1981 : I. Shoemaker and E. Broun. The Engravings of Marcantonio Raimondi: Spencer Museum of Art; The Ackland Art Museum, 1981 pp.170-71, no.55

      Raphael Invenit 1985 : G. Bernini Pezzini et al., Raphael Invenit. Stampe di Raffaello nelle Collezioni dell'Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome, 1985 p.158, VIII.1 (entry by Stefania Massari)

      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

      Other number(s)

      Ruland p.279 A.VII.4

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