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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

NICOLAS SANGIORGI (ACTIVE 1877)

Socle-paintings beneath 'The Oath of Leo III'

published 1877

Engraving | 48.1 x 60.6 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852858

A print reproducing the figures painted in monochrome on the dado below the fresco of 'The Oath of Leo III' in the Stanza dell'Incendio in the Vatican. Lettered with title and production details (including publishing date). Annotated in pencil on both sides. Stamped with the blind stamp of the Calcografia Regia di Roma (Lugt 2144). Not in Ruland (1876). The crowned seated figure flanked by terms is Constantine the Great, one of the six Protectors of the Church painted along the dado of the Stanza.
  • Creator(s)

    Nicolas Sangiorgi (active 1877) (engraver)

    Nicola Ortis (19th Century) (designer)

    Rome : Reale Calcografia (publisher)

  • Pf. 29. V.1a

    page 210, 1a.

  • 48.1 x 60.6 cm (sheet of paper)

    33.7 x 47.5 cm (platemark)

  • I RE ESISTENTI NELLE CAMERE VATICANE / Decorazione del Basamento nella Camera dell'Incendio di Borgo.

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

  • Subject(s)
    • Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
      • Architecture
        • Architectural design
          • Architectural decoration & motifs
            • Herms & Terms
    • Places
      • Europe
        • Italy
          • Lazio [Italy]
            • Rome [Lazio]
              • Vatican City [Rome]
                • Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
                  • Stanza dell'Incendio [Vatican Palace]