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The frescoes in the Vatican Palace commissioned by Popes Julius II and Leo X

Friedrich Seifert (1838-1920)

The Mass at Bolsena c.1870-80

Engraving | 69.0 x 86.8 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852704

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A print reproducing the fresco of The Miracle of the Mass at Bolsena, painted by Raphael in c.1512 in the Stanza di Eliodoro in the Vatican. Lettered with artists' and printer's names below image. With coat of arms at lower centre, and head of a bearded man at lower right (detail from the fresco). State without dedication and publishing line. Annotated in pencil on both sides. Described as from Pietro de Brognoli's series of prints after Raphael's Stanze frescoes and Sistine Chapel tapestries dated 1874 (Höper 2001). Not in Ruland (1876).
  • Creator(s)

    Friedrich Seifert (1838-1920) (engraver)

    After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)

    Vincenzo Pasqualoni (1819-80) (designer)

    Angelo Biggi (active 19th century) (printer)

  • annotation: p.201. 2a [front, lower left, in pencil]
    annotation: C 2a [front, lower right, in pencil]
    annotation: Pf 28. C. 2 a [back, lower left, in pencil]
  • 69.0 x 86.8 cm (sheet of paper)

    56.6 x 73.3 cm (platemark)

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

  • Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • prints
    Subject(s)
    • Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
      • Music
        • Religious music
          • Liturgical music
            • Masses
    • Science, Medicine and Technology
      • Medical sciences
        • Anatomy
          • Blood
  • Other number(s)

    Ruland p.201 C.2.c(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.48, no.II.5 (entry by Grazia Bernini Pezzini)

    Höper 2001 : Höper, C. Raffael und die Folgen, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001 p.401, no.F 9.6