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Tapestries

Tapestries

    PIETRO SANTI BARTOLI (1635-1700)

    The Florentines looting palaces of the Medici

    c.1655-90

    Etching | 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.

    • Creator(s)

      Pietro Santi Bartoli (1635-1700) (etcher)

      After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (designer)

      Giovanni Giacomo de' Rossi (1627-91) (publisher)

      Subject(s)

      House of Medici [Italy]
      Pope Leo X (1475-1521)

    • annotation: 193 B. [front, upper right, in pencil]

    • 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 [Tuscany]
            • Lazio [Italy]
              • Rome [Lazio]
                • Vatican City [Rome]
                  • Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
                    • Sistine Chapel [Vatican Palace]
                      • Vatican-Sistine Chapel tapestries
      Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • prints
    • Bibliographic reference(s)

      Raphael Invenit 1985 : G. Bernini Pezzini et al., Raphael Invenit. Stampe di Raffaello nelle Collezioni dell'Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome, 1985 pp.135-6, no.XI.5 (entry by Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodinò)

      Höper 2001 : Höper, C. Raffael und die Folgen, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001 p.498, no.H 13.5

      Other number(s)

      Ruland p.246 B.II.35

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