The frescoes in the Vatican Palace commissioned by Popes Julius II and Leo X
Anonymous, 16th century
The Battle of Constantine at the Milvian Bridge [left half] c.1520-1600
Engraving | 36.3 x 57.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852917
![The Battle of Constantine at the Milvian Bridge [left half]](https://albert.rct.uk/sites/default/files/styles/rctr-scale-1300-500/public/collection-online/3/0/760313-1527675507.jpg?itok=bsCZKfrA "The Battle of Constantine at the Milvian Bridge [left half]")
An anonymous engraving printed from two plates reproducing (in reverse) the left half of the fresco of The Battle of Constantine at the Milvian Bridge, designed by Raphael and eventually painted by his workshop in the Sala di Costantino in the Vatican between 1520 and 1524. Lettered with text in Latin, attribution of the design to Raphael and monogram (see Nagler, V, no.118.9). Lettered at lower right with publication details. With annotations on both sides. Not in Ruland (1876).
This is the right half of an engraving printed from four plates reproducing the whole fresco. For a complete engraving, see RCIN 830591.
This is the right half of an engraving printed from four plates reproducing the whole fresco. For a complete engraving, see RCIN 830591.
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Creator(s)
Anonymous, 16th century (engraver)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (designer)
Monogrammist S.K. (16C) [Nagler V, 118] (engraver)
Martinus Pe[tr..] : Antwerp (publisher)
Subject(s)
Constantine I, The Great (272-337 AD)Maxentius, Emperor of Rome (278-312 AD) -
annotation: Pf 30 A. II. 10a [mount, front, lower centre, in pencil]annotation: Unknown engraver / Sii Die Monog. V p.21. / See whole engraving in Victoria Room [mount, front, lower centre, in pencil]annotation: 12a. [mount, front, lower centre, in pencil]annotation: N. 27 [back, centre, in ink]annotation: 12 [back, lower right, in ink]annotation: 6+1 [back, lower centre, in ink]
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36.3 x 57.0 cm (sheet of paper)
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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)
- 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
- 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.235 B.II.10a(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.113, under no.II.3 (entry by Stefania Massari)
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