Vatican Frescoes
Vatican Frescoes
Noah's Sacrifice
dated 1740Chiaroscuro woodcut, printed from three blocks in grey | RCIN 853407
A chiaroscuro woodcut after a drawing in the Albertina, Vienna (RCIN 853406), reproducing 'Noah's Sacrifice painted by the workshop of Raphael (c.1517-19) in the vault of the third bay of the Raphael Loggia in the Vatican. Signed with printmaker's name at lower right and inscribed at lower left: 'Ex Raphaelij Urbinatis Schede, que in Aedibus Crosatis extat'.
Zanetti revived the chiaroscuro woodcut, a prevalent technique of sixteenth-century Italian printmaking. Zanetti published a collection of chiaroscuro woodcuts, primarily after works by Parmigianino, but also including some after Raphael, in the late 1720s under the title Diversarum Iconum and again in a third edition of 1749 with the title 'Raccolta di varie stampe...'. See RCINs 853424, 853429, 853437, 853457 and 853471 for other chiaroscuro woodcuts by Zanetti after Loggia frescoes.
Zanetti revived the chiaroscuro woodcut, a prevalent technique of sixteenth-century Italian printmaking. Zanetti published a collection of chiaroscuro woodcuts, primarily after works by Parmigianino, but also including some after Raphael, in the late 1720s under the title Diversarum Iconum and again in a third edition of 1749 with the title 'Raccolta di varie stampe...'. See RCINs 853424, 853429, 853437, 853457 and 853471 for other chiaroscuro woodcuts by Zanetti after Loggia frescoes.
- Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
