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Tapestries

Tapestries

MASTER OF THE DIE (ACTIVE 1530-60)

Two Putti Presenting Cups Full of Gold to the God of Riches

c.1530-35

Engraving | 22.9 x 28.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853314

A print from a series of four engravings reproducing the composition of four tapestries from a twenty-piece set known as the ‘Giuochi di putti’, most likely designed by Giovanni da Udine (perhaps with Raphael's involvement in its conception) and woven in Flanders for Pope Leo X. Not in Ruland (1876). Pasted to backing sheet along left edge, with annotation on the back. This impression is generally described as a second state. Signed with engraver’s monogram (a die with the letter B, lower right). Lettered with attribution of the design to Raphael and Antoine Lafréry’s address. According to Bartsch, the first state bears the engraver’s signature, but is without further inscriptions.

Massari (in Raphael Invenit 1985) dated the series to c.1532. Another second state impression can be found at RCIN 853313. For a late state published in 1655 by Giovanni Giacomo de' Rossi, see RCIN 853315. The three other engravings from the Master of the Die’s series can be found at RCINs 853316, 853319, 853321. For further discussion about the ‘Giuochi di Putti’ tapestry set, see Bibliographic References.
  • Creator(s)

    Master of the Die (active 1530-60) (engraver)

    Giovanni da Udine (c. 1487-1564) (designer)

    Associated with Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (designer)

    Antonio Lafreri (1512-77) (publisher)

  • No 32

  • 22.9 x 28.5 cm (sheet of paper)

  • Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (after 1876)

  • Subject(s)
    • Putti
    • Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
      • Decorative techniques & surface decoration
        • Floral decorations
          • Garlands
    • Natural Sciences & Mathematics
      • Chemistry
        • Metals
          • Gold
  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    pp.137-8, no.II.1 (entry by Stefania Massari) (Raphael Invenit 1985 : Bernini Pezzini, G. et al., 1985. Raphael Invenit. Stampe di Raffaello nelle Collezioni dell'Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome)
    pp.606-11 (Cordellier/Py 1992 : Raphael : son atelier, ses copistes, 1992 / par Dominique Cordellier et Bernadette Py, Paris (Inventaire general des dessins Italiens ; V / sous la direction de Francoise Viatte))
    pp.229-33 (Tapestry in the Renaissance 2002 : Tapestry in the Renaissance. Art and Magnificence, ed. Thomas P. Campbell, The Metropolitan Museum of Art 2002)