The frescoes in the Vatican Palace commissioned by Popes Julius II and Leo X
Giulio di Antonio Bonasone (c. 1498-c. 1580)
Constantine defeating the tyrant Maxentius dated 1544
Engraving | 37.4 x 45.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852931
An engraving generally described as based upon a lost initial design by Raphael for the fresco of The Battle of Constantine at the Milvian Bridge, painted by his workshop in the Sala di Costantino in the Vatican (1520-24) after drawings by him. First state. Signed and dated on a stone at lower right. Annotated in ink at lower centre.
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Creator(s)
Giulio di Antonio Bonasone (c. 1498-c. 1580) (engraver)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (designer)
Subject(s)
Constantine I, The Great (272-337 AD)Maxentius, Emperor of Rome (278-312 AD) -
annotation: Raphael pinxit [front, lower centre, in ink]
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37.4 x 45.4 cm (sheet of paper)
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Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
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Object type(s)
- visual works
- prints
Subject(s)
- Social sciences
- Military affairs
- Wars, Campaigns & Battles
- Wars
- Wars of the first century to the tenth century
- Rome and the Barbarians (305-400) (war)
- Battle of the Milvian Bridge, 312 (Rome and the Barbarians)
- Rome and the Barbarians (305-400) (war)
- Wars of the first century to the tenth century
- War operations
- Battles
- Wars
- Wars, Campaigns & Battles
- Military affairs
- visual works
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Other number(s)
Ruland p.236 B.II.22
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 p.113, no.II.1 (entry by Stefanbia Massari)
Höper 2001 : Höper, C. Raffael und die Folgen, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001 p.415, no.F 21.1
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