Tapestries
Tapestries
GIUSEPPE MARCUCCI (1807-93)
The Death of Ananias
c.1827-1883Engraving | 48.3 x 50.7 cm (platemark) | RCIN 853115
A print after the tapestry of 'The Death of Ananias', from a set of ten tapestries commissioned by Pope Leo X illustrating episodes from the lives of St Peter and St Paul. Beneath the central scene is a border depicting scenes from the life of Pope Leo X, whose emblems appear in the central section.
Lettered with artists' and printer's names below image. With coat of arms at lower centre, and head of a man at lower right (detail from the tapestry). State without dedication. Described as from Pietro de Brognoli's series of prints after Raphael's Stanze frescoes and Sistine Chapel tapestries dated 1874 (Höper 2001). Not in Ruland (1876).
The tapestry designs were executed by Raphael and his workshop and transported to Flanders, where the tapestries were woven in the workshop of Pieter van Aelst. Seven of the tapestry cartoons survive (including that of 'The Healing of the Lame Man'), now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London on loan from the Royal Collection. The ten original tapestries, intended to be hung in the Sistine Chapel, are housed in the Vatican Museums.
Lettered with artists' and printer's names below image. With coat of arms at lower centre, and head of a man at lower right (detail from the tapestry). State without dedication. Described as from Pietro de Brognoli's series of prints after Raphael's Stanze frescoes and Sistine Chapel tapestries dated 1874 (Höper 2001). Not in Ruland (1876).
The tapestry designs were executed by Raphael and his workshop and transported to Flanders, where the tapestries were woven in the workshop of Pieter van Aelst. Seven of the tapestry cartoons survive (including that of 'The Healing of the Lame Man'), now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London on loan from the Royal Collection. The ten original tapestries, intended to be hung in the Sistine Chapel, are housed in the Vatican Museums.
Creator(s)
Giuseppe Marcucci (1807-93) (engraver)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (designer)
Vincenzo Pasqualoni (1819-80) (designer)
Angelo Biggi (active 19th century) (printer)
P. M [cropped]
48.3 x 50.7 cm (platemark)
- Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (after 1876)
Subject(s)
- Places
- Europe
- 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]
- Italy
- Europe
- Places
Bibliographic reference(s)
p.132, no.V.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.487, no.H 4.5 (Höper 2001 : Höper, C. Raffael und die Folgen, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001)
