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Tapestries

    GIOVANNI VOLPATO (1733-1803)

    Decorative pilaster incorporating the 'Border with the Three Fates'

    dated 1776

    Engraving with etching | 104.7 x 48.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853070

    A print on two joined sheets representing a vertical pilaster decorated with grotesque ornament and incorporating various motifs, including two caryatid figures supporting a structure with the three Fates (Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos). Dated and lettered with artists' names. Numbered at upper left: No. 9. Published in G. Volpato and G. Ottaviani, 'Loggie de Rafaele nel Vaticano', vol.III, plate 9. The central panel is derived from the vertical border woven at the right of the tapestry of 'Christ's Charge to Peter' now in the Vatican Museums (inv. no.43868); it is generally known as the 'Border of the Fates'. A photograph of the tapestry can be found at RCIN 853039.

    • Creator(s)

      Giovanni Volpato (1733-1803) (printmaker)

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

      Ludovico Teseo (1731-82) (designer)

    • 104.7 x 48.4 cm (sheet of paper)

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

    • Subject(s)
      • Science, Medicine and Technology
        • Construction
          • Structural parts of buildings
            • Pilasters
      • Religion & Theology
        • Religions and faiths
          • Religions of antiquity
            • Classical mythology
              • Clotho (myth)
              • Lachesis (myth)
              • Atropos (myth)
      • 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)

      p.106, no.43 (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.265 (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))

      p.480, no.G 21.41 (Höper 2001 : Höper, C. Raffael und die Folgen, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001)

      p.81, under no.2 (Raphael. Cartoons and Tapestries 2010 : Raphael. Cartoons and Tapestries for the Sistine Chapel. Edited by M. Evans and C. Browne with A. Nesselrath, V&A Publishing 2010)

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