The frescoes in the Vatican Palace commissioned by Popes Julius II and Leo X
Pietro Santi Bartoli (1635-1700)
The gathering of manna published 1675
Etching | 7.9 x 23.2 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853675
An etching by Pietro Santi Bartoli reproducing, in reverse, the almost entirely destroyed fresco The gathering of manna painted by the workshop of Raphael (c.1517-19) in the basamento of the eighth bay of the Raphael Loggia in the Vatican. Lettered with attribution of the composition to Raphael. Signed by Bartoli at lower left and numbered on plate at lower right: 8. Trimmed on all sides. 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.
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Creator(s)
Pietro Santi Bartoli (1635-1700) (etcher)
After a work by the workshop of Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
Subject(s)
Moses(OT) -
7.9 x 23.2 cm (sheet of paper)
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Pluit illis Manna ad manducandum Panem Coeli. sal.77
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Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
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Object type(s)
- visual works
- prints
Subject(s)
- Religion & Theology
- Religions and faiths
- Christianity
- Bible & Holy Scripture
- Old Testament
- Bible & Holy Scripture
- Christianity
- Religions and faiths
- visual works
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Other number(s)
Ruland p.228 B.LX.1
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.112, no.XVIII.8 (entry by Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodino
Davidson 1985 : Davidson, Bernice F. Raphael's Bible. A Study of the Vatican Logge, 1985 fig.73
Dacos 2008: Dacos, N., The Loggia of Raphael: A Vatican Art Treasure, 2008 pp.173-194
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