Eminentissimo Ac Reverendissimo Principi Camillo Maximo S.R.E. Cardinali Amplissimo Bonarum Artium omniumq; Nobilium Disciplinarum Patrono, ac Mæcenati Meritissimo Parerga, atq; ornamenta, ex Raphaelis Sanctij prototypis, à Ioanne Nanio Utinensi, in Vaticani Palatij Xystis, partim opere plastico, partim coloribus expressa, ad veterum ornamentorum, et picturarum, quæ extabant in ruinis domus Imperat. Titi, elegantiam. Hisce verò meis typis adumbrata, perpetuum venerationis, ac devoti animi mei monumentum dico, et devoveo. Humillimus Servus et Cliens Io. Iacobus de Rubeis.
RA Collection: Book
Record number
06/848
Imprint
[Rome:]: [before 1677?]
Physical Description
43 pl. (incl. t.pl.); 276×398 mm.
General Note
In the Royal Academy's copy the plates are bound in in the order 1, 9, 5, 2, 6, 8, 7, 4, 3, 10-43.
Responsibility Note
Plate 1 is signed as drawn and engraved by Petrus Sanctus Bartolus. The others are signed, the odd numbers as designed by R.V. (i.e. Raphael Urbinas); the even numbers as designed by R.V. and drawn and engraved by P.S.B.
Each even-numbered plate carries the printer's imprint of 'Io. Iacob. de Rubeis' (i.e. Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi).
References
Italy. Ministero Per I Beni Culturali E Ambientali. Istituto Nazionale Per La Grafica, Raphael Invenit: Stampe Da Raffaello Nelle Collezioni Dell'Istituto Nazionale Per La Grafica: Catalogo (1985), p.108-111, 502-9; L. Bianchi, 'La fortuna di Raffaello nell'incisione', in M. Salmi, ed., Raffaello: l'opera, le fonte, la fortuna (1968), II, p.647-89. G.C. Custoza, Giovanni da Udine: la tecnica (1996); E. Bartolini, Giovanni da Udine (1987); N. Dacos, Le Logge di Raffaello (1977), p.263f.
Summary Note
The plates show (with some freedom) Raphael's designs for the stuccoes of the Vatican loggie. The designs draw chiefly on classical mythology and are executed in a classical style.
Binding Note
19th-century half calf, red cloth-covered boards; rebacked and recornered in 20th century, green morocco spine-label lettered 'Bartolis Vatican After Raphael &c.' Bound with two others.
Mural paintings, Italian - Paintings, Italian - Paintings, European - Stucco - Palaces - Italy - Rome - Vatican City - Vatican Palace (Vatican City) - History - 16th century - Renaissance
Pictorial works - Italy - 17th century