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Decoration of Cardinal Bibbiena's stufetta in the Vatican c.1804-1839
Outline etchings | RCIN 853858
Tommaso Piroli (c. 1752-1824)
Master: Decoration of Cardinal Bibbiena's stufetta in the Vatican Item: Venus tying her sandal c.1804-1839
Tommaso Piroli (c. 1752-1824)
Master: Decoration of Cardinal Bibbiena's stufetta in the Vatican Item: Venus wounded c.1804-1839
Tommaso Piroli (c. 1752-1824)
Master: Decoration of Cardinal Bibbiena's stufetta in the Vatican Item: Venus and Adonis c.1804-1839
Tommaso Piroli (c. 1752-1824)
Master: Decoration of Cardinal Bibbiena's stufetta in the Vatican Item: Cupid and Pan wrestling c.1804-1839
Tommaso Piroli (c. 1752-1824)
Master: Decoration of Cardinal Bibbiena's stufetta in the Vatican Item: Pan and Syrinx c.1804-1839
Tommaso Piroli (c. 1752-1824)
Master: Decoration of Cardinal Bibbiena's stufetta in the Vatican Item: Venus riding on a sea monster c.1804-1839
Tommaso Piroli (c. 1752-1824)
Master: Decoration of Cardinal Bibbiena's stufetta in the Vatican Item: Venus tying her sandal c.1804-1839
Tommaso Piroli (c. 1752-1824)
Master: Decoration of Cardinal Bibbiena's stufetta in the Vatican Item: The birth of Venus c.1804-1839
Tommaso Piroli (c. 1752-1824)
Master: Decoration of Cardinal Bibbiena's stufetta in the Vatican Item: The birth of Erechtheus c.1804-1839
Tommaso Piroli (c. 1752-1824)
Master: Decoration of Cardinal Bibbiena's stufetta in the Vatican Item: Cupid as the winner of souls c.1804-1839
Tommaso Piroli (c. 1752-1824)
Master: Decoration of Cardinal Bibbiena's stufetta in the Vatican Item: Cupid victorious over Neptune c.1804-1839
Tommaso Piroli (c. 1752-1824)
Master: Decoration of Cardinal Bibbiena's stufetta in the Vatican Item: Cupid commanding the reptiles c.1804-1839
Tommaso Piroli (c. 1752-1824)
Master: Decoration of Cardinal Bibbiena's stufetta in the Vatican Item: Cupid as winner of the races c.1804-1839
Tommaso Piroli (c. 1752-1824)
Master: Decoration of Cardinal Bibbiena's stufetta in the Vatican Item: Genius of the harvest c.1804-1839
Tommaso Piroli (c. 1752-1824)
Master: Decoration of Cardinal Bibbiena's stufetta in the Vatican Item: Cupid commanding the snails c.1804-1839
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A series of fourteen outline etchings by Tommaso Piroli reproducing elements of the decoration of the stufetta, or bathroom, in the apartments of Cardinal Bibbiena in the Vatican Palace, which was frescoed with mythological subjects by Raphael's workshop c.1516. All are lettered with a title below the images and numbered at top right. Catalogued by Ruland (1876) as having been published in Peintures du Cabinet de Jules II, au Vatican de l'Invention de Raphael, Rome 1804.
Cardinal Bibbiena had a close friendship with Raphael, patronising him on a number of occasions and, it would seem, facilitating the betrothal of the artist to his niece. In addition to the stufetta, Raphael's workshop also painted Cardinal Bibbiena's loggia. Both spaces were designed in a manner imitating ancient Roman painted decoration, and included depictions of episodes from Ovid, grotesques and ornamental motifs. The stufetta was rediscovered in the nineteenth century and survives in a much damaged form today; the loggetta was not rediscovered until the twentieth century.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
Outline etchings
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.63, VIII.1-14 (entry by Grazia Bernini Pezzini)
Jones/Penny 1983 : Jones, R. and Penny, N. Raphael, 1983 pp.192-94
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.324-25