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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

BENOÎT AUDRAN I (1661-1721)

Theology

c.1700

Etching | 42.0 x 37.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852616

An etching after one of the four roundels painted on the vault of the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican. Second state, numbered in the lower right corner: 1, and with letters below image. On paper with an Auvergne watermark. Annotated in pencil on the back. Not listed in Ruland (1876). From a series of four prints reproducing the four roundels. A first state impression (without letters) can be found at RCIN 852615. For a photograph of the painting, see RCIN 852612. One from a series of four engravings reproducing the four roundels. The remaining prints from the series can also be found in the Raphael Collection: Poetry (RCIN 852624), Philosophy (RCINs 852635, 852636), and Justice (RCIN 852639). Ruland attributed the whole series to N. Bocquet. The roundel reproduced in this print depicts the allegorical figure of Theology, flanked by two winged putti holding inscribed panels. It is painted above the fresco of the 'Disputa'.
  • Creator(s)

    Benoît Audran I (1661-1721) (etcher)

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

    Previously attributed to Nicolas Bocquet (active 1691) (etcher)

  • Pf 27. K. I. 4a
    AUVERGNE, with numbers below

  • 42.0 x 37.5 cm (sheet of paper)

  • La Theologie / Peint par Raphael au Vatican dans la Chambre de la Signature

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

  • Subject(s)
    • Places
      • Europe
        • Italy
          • Lazio [Italy]
            • Rome [Lazio]
              • Vatican City [Rome]
                • Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
                  • Stanza della Segnatura [Vatican Palace]
                    • Vatican-Stanza della Segnatura-Ceiling
    • Religion & Theology
  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    p.42, no.VI.5 (entry by Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodinò) (Raphael Invenit 1985 : Bernini Pezzini, G. et al., 1985. Raphael Invenit. Stampe di Raffaello nelle Collezioni dell'Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome)
    p.388, no.F 6.1 (Höper 2001 : Höper, C. Raffael und die Folgen, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001)