PIETRO SANTI BARTOLI (1635-1700)

Pope Leo X receiving the homage of the Cardinals (left); River-god Tiber before a church (right)

c.1655-1690

Etching | 12.4 x 28.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853035

A print reproducing, in reverse, scenes 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 subjects. With artists' names and plate number: 14, 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.c
12.4 x 28.4 cm (sheet of paper)

9.8 x 25.7 cm (platemark)
Io: Medices Pontifex Max creatus Leo X appellatus se complectendū; et adorandum exibet Cardinalibus. / Tybris fluuius. Basilica Vaticana.
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.15 (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.499, no.H 13.15 (Höper 2001 : Höper, C. Raffael und die Folgen, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001)

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Pope Leo X receiving the homage of the Cardinals (left); River-god Tiber before a church (right)

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