Other Frescoes
Other Frescoes
DOMENICO CUNEGO (1726-1803)
The triumph of Galatea
dated 1771Etching with engraving | 51.9 x 37.3 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853838
A print by Domenico Cunego reproducing the fresco The triumph of Galatea painted by Raphael in the loggia of the Villa Farnesina, Rome c.1512. Lettered with title, inscription in latin and attribution of the composition to Raphael. Signed and dated by the printmaker. Numbered at top left: 8. Published as Plate 8 in Gavin Hamilton's Schola Italica Picturae, 1773. Annotated on recto. On watermarked paper. Not in Ruland (1876).
Hamilton's Schola Italica Picturae comprised 40 plates, executed by leading Italian printmakers, reproducing Italian Old Master paintings. No text accompanied the plates.
The triumph of Galatea was Raphael's first commission from the Papal banker Agostino Chigi for the Villa Farnesina; he later also frescoed the villa's entrance loggia, as well as working on the banker's chapels in Santa Maria del Popolo and Santa Maria della Pace, both also in Rome. Raphael's literary source for his depiction of Galatea was a poem by Poliziano which celebrated the victory of Giuliano de'Medici in a joust of 1475. Contemporaneously, Sebastiano del Piombo painted a fresco adjacent to Raphael's, again based on Poliziano's poem, depicting the giant Polyphemus. It seems likely that a full cycle of frescoes was planned for the loggia but that this plan was abandoned, for reasons unknown.
Hamilton's Schola Italica Picturae comprised 40 plates, executed by leading Italian printmakers, reproducing Italian Old Master paintings. No text accompanied the plates.
The triumph of Galatea was Raphael's first commission from the Papal banker Agostino Chigi for the Villa Farnesina; he later also frescoed the villa's entrance loggia, as well as working on the banker's chapels in Santa Maria del Popolo and Santa Maria della Pace, both also in Rome. Raphael's literary source for his depiction of Galatea was a poem by Poliziano which celebrated the victory of Giuliano de'Medici in a joust of 1475. Contemporaneously, Sebastiano del Piombo painted a fresco adjacent to Raphael's, again based on Poliziano's poem, depicting the giant Polyphemus. It seems likely that a full cycle of frescoes was planned for the loggia but that this plan was abandoned, for reasons unknown.
Creator(s)
Domenico Cunego (1726-1803) (printmaker)
After a work by the workshop of Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
dans la Farnesine
H B [other illegible letters]
51.9 x 37.3 cm (sheet of paper)
37.4 x 29.0 cm (platemark)
GALATEA.
- Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Bibliographic reference(s)
p.150, no.VI.6 (entry by Grazia Bernini Pezzini) (Raphael Invenit 1985 : Bernini Pezzini, G. et al., 1985. Raphael Invenit. Stampe di Raffaello nelle Collezioni dell'Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome)
p.346, E7.9A (Höper 2001 : Höper, C. Raffael und die Folgen, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001)
pp.93-97 (Jones/Penny 1983 : Jones, R. and Penny, N. Raphael, 1983)
