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      CARLO PESTRINI (B. 1780)

      Allegorical figure of Peace [from the Sala di Costantino]

      c.1800-1860

      Engraving with etching | 53.0 x 38.2 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852988

      A print reproducing the allegorical figure of Peace, painted to the right of Pope Damasus I in the Sala di Costantino in the Vatican by Raphael's workshop between 1520 and 1524. The setting has been modified. Lettered with title and production details. Stamped with the blind stamp of the Calcografia di Roma (Lugt 426e).

      • Creator(s)

        Carlo Pestrini (b. 1780) (printmaker)

        After a work by the workshop of Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)

        Michele Kech (19C) (designer)

        Andrea Appiani (1754-1817) (dedicatee)

        Carlo Pestrini (b. 1780) (dedicator)

      • 53.0 x 38.2 cm (sheet of paper)

        49.0 x 35.0 cm (platemark)

      • LA PACE

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

      • Subject(s)
        • Philosophy & Psychology
          • Philosophy
            • Allegory
        • Places
          • Europe
            • Italy
              • Lazio [Italy]
                • Rome [Lazio]
                  • Vatican City [Rome]
                    • Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
                      • Sala di Costantino [Vatican Palace]
        Object type(s)
          • visual works
            • photographs
      • 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.117, no.IX.2 (entry by Grazia Bernini Pezzini)

        Other number(s)

        Ruland p.239 C.V.5

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