Tapestries
Tapestries
PIETRO SANTI BARTOLI (1635-1700)
The Florentines looting palaces of the Medici
c.1655-1690Etching | 12.6 x 29.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853073
A print reproducing, in reverse, scenes from the border below 'Christ's Charge to Peter', one of the ten Sistine Chapel tapestries designed by Raphael under commission of Pope Leo X. Lettered below image with publisher's address and text in Latin describing the subject. Lettered within image with artists' names and plate number: 4.
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)
193 B.
12.6 x 29.4 cm (sheet of paper)
10.3 x 27.1 cm (platemark)
Eiectis Mediceis Florentini armati ipsorum aedes inuadunt, aulaeorum supellectilem antiqui operis diripiunt.
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.5 (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 13.5 (Höper 2001 : Höper, C. Raffael und die Folgen, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001)
