Vatican Frescoes
Vatican Frescoes
CARLO PESTRINI (B. 1780)
Allegorical figure of Meekness [from the Sala di Costantino]
c.1810-1870Engraving | 51.8 x 37.8 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852955
A print reproducing the allegorical figure of Meekness, painted next to Pope Clement I to the right of the fresco of 'The Vision of the Cross', executed by Raphael's workshop in the Sala di Costantino in the Vatican between 1520 and 1524. The setting has been modified. Lettered with title and artists' names. Stamped with the blind stamp of the Calcografia di Roma (Lugt 426e).
Creator(s)
Carlo Pestrini (b. 1780) (engraver)
After a work by the workshop of Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
51.8 x 37.8 cm (sheet of paper)
49.7 x 35.3 cm (platemark)
LA MANSUETUDINE
- Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Subject(s)
- Places
- Europe
- Italy
- Lazio [Italy]
- Rome [Lazio]
- Vatican City [Rome]
- Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
- Sala di Costantino [Vatican Palace]
- Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
- Vatican City [Rome]
- Rome [Lazio]
- Lazio [Italy]
- Italy
- Europe
- Places
Bibliographic reference(s)
p.115, no.VI.3 (entry by Grazia Bernini Pezzini) (Raphael Invenit 1985 : Bernini Pezzini, G. et al., 1985. Raphael Invenit. Stampe di Raffaello nelle Collezioni dell'Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome)
