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Pietro Santi Bartoli (1635-1700)
The Resurrection published 1675
Etching | 7.6 x 22.6 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853696
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An etching by Pietro Santi Bartoli reproducing, in reverse, the almost entirely destroyed fresco The Resurrection painted by the workshop of Raphael (c.1517-19) in the basamento of the twelfth bay of the Raphael Loggia in the Vatican. Lettered with a Bible quote (Matthew 28). Signed by Bartoli and numbered at lower right: 12. Trimmed within platemark. On watermarked paper. Published in Imagines veteris ac novi Testamenti in Vaticani Palatii (1675).
According to Dacos (see Bibliographic References), the basamento paintings of the Raphael Loggia in the Vatican were executed in grisaille and imitated bronze reliefs.Provenance
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
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Creator(s)
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Medium and techniques
Etching
Measurements
7.6 x 22.6 cm (sheet of paper)
Markings
watermark: Possibly the top of a fleur de lys? [centre, bottom]
Other number(s)
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.112, no.XVIII.11 (entry by Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodino
Davidson 1985 : Davidson, Bernice F. Raphael's Bible. A Study of the Vatican Logge, 1985 fig.114
Dacos 2008: Dacos, N., The Loggia of Raphael: A Vatican Art Treasure, 2008 pp.173-194
Alternative title(s)
Christus Dominus die tertia à mortuis resurgit. Matt XXVIII. Ra.vr.
