Tapestries
Tapestries
The defeat of the Holy League at the Battle of Ravenna on 11 April 1512
c.1655-1690Etching | 14.1 x 29.2 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853111
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)
195
14.1 x 29.2 cm (sheet of paper)
11.8 x 26.7 cm (platemark)
Ingenti clade ad Roncum Ravennae amnem in Pontificios, Hispanosq. a Gallis inlata' Medices Legatus ab Equitum manibus aduentu Federici Gonzagae Bozoli eripitur, cui accepta fide protinus est deditus.
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Subject(s)
- Social sciences
- Military affairs
- Wars, Campaigns & Battles
- Wars
- Wars of the sixteenth century
- War of the Holy League (1510-1514)
- Battle of Ravenna (1512)
- War of the Holy League (1510-1514)
- Wars of the sixteenth century
- Wars
- Wars, Campaigns & Battles
- Military affairs
- 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]
- Emilia-Romagna [Italy]
- Ravenna [Italy]
- Lazio [Italy]
- Italy
- Europe
- Social sciences
Bibliographic reference(s)
pp.135-6, no.XI.7 (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.498, no.H 13.7 (Höper 2001 : Höper, C. Raffael und die Folgen, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001)
