Tapestries
Tapestries
PIETRO SANTI BARTOLI (1635-1700)
The entry of Cardinal Giovanni de' Medici into Florence
c.1655-1690Etching | 13.5 x 26.7 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853084
A print reproducing, in reverse, a scene from the border below 'The Stoning of St Stephen', one of the ten Sistine Chapel tapestries designed by Raphael under commission of Pope Leo X. Lettered below image with text in Latin describing the subject. With plate number: 1, 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.
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)
194 a
13.5 x 26.7 cm (sheet of paper)
11.4 x 24.7 cm (platemark)
Ioannes Medices Cardinalis missus ab Innocentio VIII Hetruriae Legatus in patriam redit mortuo Laurentio Patre
- 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.2 (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 13.2 (Höper 2001 : Höper, C. Raffael und die Folgen, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001)
