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Tapestries

Tapestries

      PIETRO SANTI BARTOLI (1635-1700)

      Pope Leo X receiving the homage of the Cardinals (left); River-god Tiber before a church (right)

      c.1655-1690

      Etching | 12.4 x 28.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853035

      A print reproducing, in reverse, scenes from the border below The Miraculous Draft of Fishes, one of the ten tapestries commissioned by Pope Leo X for the Sistine Chapel, designed by Raphael and his studio in c.1515-16. Lettered with text in Latin describing the subjects. With artists' names and plate number: 14, within image.

      From a series of 15 plates (including title-page with dedication to Leopoldo de’ Medici) after the monochromatic frieze-like scenes illustrating episodes from the life of Pope Leo X in the borders of the Sistine Chapel tapestries. The plates were etched by Pietro Santi Bartoli and the series was published in Rome by Gian Giacomo de Rossi.

      • Creator(s)

        Pietro Santi Bartoli (1635-1700) (etcher)

        After Raphael (1483-1520) (designer)

        Giovanni Giacomo de' Rossi (1627-91) (publisher)

        Subject(s)

        Pope Leo X (1475-1521)

      • annotation: 192.c [front, upper right, in pencil]

      • 12.4 x 28.4 cm (sheet of paper)

        9.8 x 25.7 cm (platemark)

      • Io: Medices Pontifex Max creatus Leo X appellatus se complectendū; et adorandum exibet Cardinalibus. / Tybris fluuius. Basilica Vaticana.

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

      • Subject(s)
        • Places
          • Europe
            • Italy
              • Lazio [Italy]
                • Rome [Lazio]
                  • Vatican City [Rome]
                    • Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
                      • Sistine Chapel [Vatican Palace]
                        • Vatican-Sistine Chapel tapestries
        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 pp.135-6, no.XI.15 (entry by Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodinò)

        Höper 2001 : Höper, C. Raffael und die Folgen, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001 p.499, no.H 13.15

        Other number(s)

        Ruland p.244 B.I.24

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