Tapestries
Tapestries
The return of Giovanni de' Medici to Florence in 1512
c.1655-1690Etching | 12.5 x 29.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853136
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)
12.5 x 29.4 cm (sheet of paper)
10.0 x 26.9 cm (platemark)
Effusi sunt cuncti ciues ad salutandum Ioannem Legatum, et ab his in paternas aedes est deductus XVIII post annum, ex quo fuerat expulsus.
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.12 (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.499, no.H 13.12 (Höper 2001 : Höper, C. Raffael und die Folgen, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001)