Vatican Frescoes
Vatican Frescoes
PIETRO SANTI BARTOLI (1635-1700)
Joshua renews the Covenant at Shechem
published 1675Etching | 8.0 x 22.9 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853688
An etching by Pietro Santi Bartoli reproducing, in reverse, the almost entirely destroyed fresco 'Joshua renews the Covenant at Shechem' painted by the workshop of Raphael (c.1517-19) in the basamento of the tenth bay of the Raphael Loggia in the Vatican. Numbered at lower right: 9. Trimmed within platemark. Published in 'Imagines veteris ac novi Testamenti in Vaticani Palatii' (1675).
According to Dacos (see Bibliographic References), the basamento paintings of the Raphael Loggia in the Vatican were executed in grisaille and imitated bronze reliefs.
According to Dacos (see Bibliographic References), the basamento paintings of the Raphael Loggia in the Vatican were executed in grisaille and imitated bronze reliefs.
Creator(s)
Pietro Santi Bartoli (1635-1700) (etcher)
After a work by the workshop of Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
8.0 x 22.9 cm (sheet of paper)
Prædicauerunt ubique Domino cohonerante sermone confirmante sequentibus signis. Mar. i6
- Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Subject(s)
- Places
- Asia
- Palestinian Territories
- Nablus
- Palestinian Territories
- Asia
- Religion & Theology
- Religions and faiths
- Christianity
- Bible & Holy Scripture
- Old Testament
- Bible & Holy Scripture
- Christianity
- Religions and faiths
- Places
Bibliographic reference(s)
fig.87 (Davidson 1985 : Davidson, Bernice F. Raphael's Bible. A Study of the Vatican Logge, 1985)
pp. 173-194 (Dacos 2008: Dacos, N., The Loggia of Raphael: A Vatican Art Treasure, 2008)
