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Vatican Frescoes

    GIOVANNI PETRINI (B. C. 1750)

    The division of the lands

    published 1790

    Engraving | 26.0 x 29.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853581

    An engraving by Giovanni Petrini after the fresco The division of the lands painted by the workshop of Raphael (c.1517-19) in the vault of the tenth bay of the Raphael Loggia in the Vatican. Lettered with attribution of the composition to Raphael and the signature of the printmaker. Numbered bottom right: XXXX. First state.

    This engraving is from Pietro Montagnani's Picturae Peristyli Vaticani of 1790, for which a number of engravers reproduced the 52 frescoes in the loggia. The frescoes are framed by imagined decorative borders which do not correspond with the actual borders in the loggia.

    • Creator(s)

      Giovanni Petrini (b. c. 1750) (engraver)

      After a work by the workshop of Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)

      Pietro Paolo Montagnani (active c. 1830) (publisher)

      Subject(s)

      Joshua(OT)

    • 26.0 x 29.4 cm (sheet of paper)

      24.6 x 28.0 cm (platemark)

    • ELEAZAR SACERDOS ET JOSUE REX SORTE DIVIDUNT IN HAEREDIT ATEM / FILIIS ISRAEL UNIVERSAM TERRAM Iosue.C. XIIII.

    • Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

    • Subject(s)
      • Religion & Theology
        • Religions and faiths
          • Christianity
            • Bible & Holy Scripture
              • Old Testament
      Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • prints
    • 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.96, no.IX.41 (entry by Grazia Bernini Pezzini)

      Davidson 1985 : Davidson, Bernice F. Raphael's Bible. A Study of the Vatican Logge, 1985 fig.86

      Dacos 2008: Dacos, N., The Loggia of Raphael: A Vatican Art Treasure, 2008 pl.138, p.181

      Other number(s)

      Ruland p.223 B.XL.4

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