Tapestries
Tapestries
STEFANO MULINARI (1741-90)
St Paul preaching at Athens
dated 1782Etching and lavis | 32.5 x 36.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853202
A facsimile of a drawing now in the Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi, Florence (inv. no.1217E). Lettered with production details, dedication and dedicatee's coat of arms. Dated: 1782, and numbered : 2, on plate. Published in S. Mulinari, 'Scuola Italiana o sia Nuova Raccolta di Stampe a Forma di Disegni', Florence 1787, plate 2.
The Uffizi drawing is generally described as a copy of a now lost modello executed by Raphael for the cartoon of 'St Paul Preaching at Athens', one of the ten tapestries illustrating episodes from the lives of St Peter and St Paul commissioned by Pope Leo X for the Sistine Chapel. A photograph of the drawing can be found at RCIN 853201.
Creator(s)
Stefano Mulinari (1741-90) (printmaker)
After a work copying Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
32.5 x 36.0 cm (sheet of paper)
31.5 x 34.5 cm (platemark)
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Subject(s)
- Places
- Europe
- Greece
- Attiki [Greece]
- Athens [Greece]
- Areopagus [Athens]
- Athens [Greece]
- Attiki [Greece]
- 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]
- Lazio [Italy]
- Greece
- Europe
- Places
Bibliographic reference(s)
p.134, no.IX.3 (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.505, under no.1217E (Inventario Uffizi. Disegni Esposti II 1987 : Disegni esposti, vol. 2, 1987 / a cura di Annamaria Petrioli Tofani, Florence (Gabinetto disegni e stampe degli Uffizi) )
