Title-page to a series of prints reproducing scenes from Raphael's Sistine Chapel tapestries

c.1655-1690

Etching | 14.9 x 26.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853033

Title-page to a series of plates reproducing, in reverse, the monochromatic frieze-like scenes illustrating episodes from the life of Pope Leo X in the borders the Sistine Chapel tapestries designed by Raphael and his studio. The plates were etched by Pietro Santi Bartoli and the series was published in Rome by Gian Giacomo de Rossi with dedication to Prince Leopoldo de' Medici. For further discussion, see Bibliographic References

Creator(s)

Pietro Santi Bartoli (1635-1700) (etcher)

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

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

Subject(s)

Pope Leo X (1475-1521)

House of Medici [Italy]
annotation: 192.a [front, upper right, in pencil]
14.9 x 26.4 cm (sheet of paper)

12.6 x 24.0 cm (platemark)
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Subject(s)
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  Europe
  Italy
  Lazio [Italy]
  Rome [Lazio]
  Vatican City [Rome]
  Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
  Sistine Chapel [Vatican Palace]
  Vatican-Sistine Chapel tapestries
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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.1 (entry by Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodinò)

Höper 2001 : Höper, C. Raffael und die Folgen, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001 p.498, no.H 13.1

Other number(s)

Ruland p.244 B.I.22

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Title-page to a series of prints reproducing scenes from Raphael's Sistine Chapel tapestries

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