The frescoes in the Vatican Palace commissioned by Popes Julius II and Leo X
Nicolas Sangiorgi (active 1877)
The Baptism of Constantine [from the Sala di Costantino] c.1865-1900
Engraving | 48.2 x 47.1 cm (platemark) | RCIN 852936
![The Baptism of Constantine [from the Sala di Costantino]](https://albert.rct.uk/sites/default/files/styles/rctr-scale-1300-500/public/collection-online/7/3/760333-1527675547.jpg?itok=zalag1K8 "The Baptism of Constantine [from the Sala di Costantino]")
A print reproducing the fresco of The Baptism of Constantine, painted by Raphael's workshop in the Sala di Costantino in the Vatican between 1520 and 1524. Lettered with artists' and printer's names below image. With coat of arms at lower centre, and head of a man wearing a plumed helmet at lower right (detail from the fresco). State without dedication and publishing line. With pencil annotations. Not in Ruland (1876). Described as from Pietro de Brognoli's series of prints after Raphael's Stanze frescoes and Sistine Chapel tapestries dated 1874 (Höper 2001).
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Creator(s)
Nicolas Sangiorgi (active 1877) (engraver)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (designer)
Filippo Severati (1819-92) (designer)
Angelo Biggi (active 19th century) (printer)
Subject(s)
Constantine I, The Great (272-337 AD) -
annotation: p 237. III. 2a [front, lower left, in pencil]annotation: III. 3a [front, lower right, in pencil]
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48.2 x 47.1 cm (platemark)
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Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (after 1876)
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Object type(s)
- visual works
- prints
Subject(s)
- Religion & Theology
- Religions and faiths
- Christianity
- Christian church in general
- Sacraments
- Baptism
- Sacraments
- Christian church in general
- Christianity
- Religions and faiths
- 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
- visual works
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Other number(s)
Ruland p.237 B.III.2a(add)
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.114, no.III.1 (entry by Grazia Bernini Pezzini)
Höper 2001 : Höper, C. Raffael und die Folgen, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001 p.419, no.F 24.1
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