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Tapestries

Tapestries

    PIETRO SANTI BARTOLI (1635-1700)

    The Florentines looting the Medici palace of statues, paintings and books

    c.165-1690

    Etching | 12.6 x 29.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853074

    A print reproducing, in reverse, a monochromatic scene woven beneath '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 text in Latin describing the subject. Lettered within image with artists' names and plate number: 5.

    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 C.

    • 12.6 x 29.4 cm (sheet of paper)

      10.1 x 27.1 cm (platemark)

    • Statuas, signa aerea, tabulas pictas, bibliothecam graecam, et latinam, quae annis 60. Cosmus ac Laurentius congessere, praedantur.

    • 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
    • Bibliographic reference(s)

      p.136, no.XI.6 (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 13.6 (Höper 2001 : Höper, C. Raffael und die Folgen, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001)

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