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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

PIETRO SANTI BARTOLI (1635-1700)

The Resurrection

published 1675

Etching | 7.6 x 22.6 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853696

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.
  • Creator(s)

    Pietro Santi Bartoli (1635-1700) (etcher)

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

  • Possibly the top of a fleur de lys?

  • 7.6 x 22.6 cm (sheet of paper)

  • Christus Dominus die tertia à mortuis resurgit. Matt XXVIII. Ra.vr.

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

  • Subject(s)
    • Religion & Theology
      • Religions and faiths
        • Christianity
          • Life of Christ
            • Resurrection of Christ
          • Bible & Holy Scripture
            • New Testament
  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    p.112, no.XVIII.11 (entry by Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodino (Raphael Invenit 1985 : Bernini Pezzini, G. et al., 1985. Raphael Invenit. Stampe di Raffaello nelle Collezioni dell'Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome)

    fig.114 (Davidson 1985 : Davidson, Bernice F. Raphael's Bible. A Study of the Vatican Logge, 1985)

    pp.173-194 (Dacos 2008: Dacos, N., The Loggia of Raphael: A Vatican Art Treasure, 2008)