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Tapestries

Tapestries

    PIETRO SANTI BARTOLI (1635-1700)

    Cardinal Giovanni de' Medici going to Rome for the Conclave

    c.1635-1690

    Etching | 12.4 x 28.2 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853034

    A print reproducing, in reverse, a scene from the border below 'The Miraculous Draft of Fishes', one of the ten tapestries commissioned by Pope Leo X for the Sistine Chapel, designed by Raphael and his studio in c.1515-16. Lettered with text in Latin describing the scene. With artists' names and plate number: 13, within image.

    From a series of 15 plates (including title-page with dedication to Leopoldo de’ Medici) after the monochromatic frieze-like scenes illustrating episodes from the life of Pope Leo X in the borders of the Sistine Chapel tapestries. The plates were etched by Pietro Santi Bartoli and the series was published in Rome by Gian Giacomo de Rossi.

    • Creator(s)

      Pietro Santi Bartoli (1635-1700) (etcher)

      After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (designer)

      Giovanni Giacomo de' Rossi (1627-91) (publisher)

    • 192.b

    • 12.4 x 28.2 cm (sheet of paper)

      10.3 x 24.8 cm (platemark)

    • Iulio II uita functo Ioannes Car. Medices patriae compos Romam ad Comitia contendit post auersam prosperamq. eius peregrinationem tanto / populi studio execeptus, ut salutantium omine mox futurus Pontifex haberetur.

    • 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]
                    • Sistine Chapel [Vatican Palace]
                      • Vatican-Sistine Chapel tapestries
    • Bibliographic reference(s)

      pp.135-6, no.XI.14 (entry by Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodinò) (Raphael Invenit 1985 : Bernini Pezzini, G. et al., 1985. Raphael Invenit. Stampe di Raffaello nelle Collezioni dell'Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome)

      p.498, no.H 13.14 (Höper 2001 : Höper, C. Raffael und die Folgen, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001)

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