The frescoes in the Vatican Palace commissioned by Popes Julius II and Leo X
Andrea Procaccini (1671-1734)
Two soldiers [from 'The Meeting between Pope Leo the Great and Attila'] c.1691-1724
Engraving | 28.2 x 19.9 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852720
![Two soldiers [from 'The Meeting between Pope Leo the Great and Attila']](https://albert.rct.uk/sites/default/files/styles/rctr-scale-1300-500/public/collection-online/8/b/752480-1524585065.jpg?itok=QQgjTFiP "Two soldiers [from 'The Meeting between Pope Leo the Great and Attila']")
A print reproducing (in reverse) the two Hun soldiers depicted in the centre foreground of Raphael's fresco of The Meeting between Pope Leo the Great and Attila, painted in c.1514 in the Stanza di Eliodoro in the Vatican. Lettered with artists' names. A photograph of the fresco can be found at RCIN 852714.
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Creator(s)
Andrea Procaccini (1671-1734) (engraver)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
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28.2 x 19.9 cm (sheet of paper)
28.0 x 19.8 cm (platemark)
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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)
- Natural Sciences & Mathematics
- Biological sciences
- Anthropology, Nationality & People
- Huns
- Anthropology, Nationality & People
- Biological sciences
- Science, Medicine and Technology
- Engineering & Technology
- Military engineering
- Arms (weapons)
- Spears
- Arms (weapons)
- Military engineering
- Engineering & Technology
- visual works
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Other number(s)
Ruland p.202 D.5
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.49, no.III.3 (entry by Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodinò)
Höper 2001 : Höper, C. Raffael und die Folgen, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001 p.402, no.F 11.1
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