Tapestries
Tapestries
Scene after the capture of Prato
c.1655-1690Etching | 12.8 x 29.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853150
The subject matter is object of debate: generally interpreted as 'Giuliano de' Medici receiving the fugitives from Prato', it has also been described as illustrating Saul's persecution of the Christians (Passavant) or events following the martyrdom of St Stephen (Raphael: Cartoons and Tapestries 2010).
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)
197 [?]
12.8 x 29.4 cm (sheet of paper)
10.6 x 27.2 cm (platemark)
Prato Opido capto, refugientes matronas, uirgines, Senesq. Medices Legatus Iulianusq. frater seruant incolumes.
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Subject(s)
- Places
- Europe
- Italy
- Tuscany [Italy]
- Florence [Italy]
- Lazio [Italy]
- Rome [Lazio]
- Vatican City [Rome]
- Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
- Sistine Chapel [Vatican Palace]
- Vatican-Sistine Chapel tapestries
- Sistine Chapel [Vatican Palace]
- Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
- Vatican City [Rome]
- Rome [Lazio]
- Tuscany [Italy]
- Italy
- Europe
- Places
Bibliographic reference(s)
pp.135-6, no.XI.11 (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 13.11 (Höper 2001 : Höper, C. Raffael und die Folgen, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001)
p.102, under no.6 (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)