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The Marriage of the Virgin c.1540-1580
Engraving | 29.5 x 21.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851411
Giulio Sanuto (active 1540-80)
The Marriage of the Virgin c.1540-1580
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This print is supposed to reproduce a lost design (by Raphael or his workshop) possibly related to one of the predella scenes of the Monteluce Altarpiece. Only state; with attribution of the composition to Raphael at lower left (R), and signed by the engraver with monogram at lower right (SV F.).
The main panel of the altarpiece - now in the Pinacoteca Vaticana, Vatican City (inv. no.40359; see RCIN 851401) - was executed by Giulio Romano and Giovanni Francesco Penni in c.1524-5, but was originally commissioned from Raphael in 1505 by the nuns of Santa Maria di Monteluce, Perugia. The predella - currently housed in the Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria, Perugia - was entrusted to Berto di Giovanni in 1505 and completed by the artist in c.1524-5.Provenance
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
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29.5 x 21.0 cm (sheet of paper)
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Raphael Invenit 1985 : G. Bernini Pezzini et al., Raphael Invenit. Stampe di Raffaello nelle Collezioni dell'Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome, 1985 p.215, no.V.5
Cordellier/Py 1992 : Raphael : son atelier, ses copistes, 1992 / par Dominique Cordellier et Bernadette Py, Paris (Inventaire general des dessins Italiens ; V / sous la direction de Francoise Viatte) pp.591-2, under nos.993-994
