Raphael 1649 Engraving Vatican Moses Receives the Ten Commandments Framed

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Artist: Raphael (Italian, 1483-1520)
Title: Moses receives the Ten Commandments.
Medium: Antique engraving on laid paper after the original from … Read more Artist: Raphael (Italian, 1483-1520)
Title: Moses receives the Ten Commandments.
Medium: Antique engraving on laid paper after the original from the series of etchings Biblical Scenes, after the frescoes by Raphael in the Vatican Loggia by master engraver Nicolas Chaperon (French, 1612 - 1656).
Signature: Signed in the plate, lower left.
Year: 1649
Dimensions: Image size: 9 3/8 x 10 1/2 inches.
Framed dimensions: Approximately 17 3/8 x 18 1/2 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.

Accompanied by A Gallery Certificate of Authenticity.

Additional notes:
This is not a modern print. This impression is more than 370 years old. The strike is crisp and the lines are sharp.

Extra Information:
An account of the facts of the Old and New Testament expressed by Raffaele Sanzio d'Urbino in the times of the Vatican loggias: painted by him and his scholars by order of Leo X. (Raphael's Bible - the Raphael paintings on the vaults of the "Lodge of the Vatican", that is, a gallery illuminated by an arcade of thirteen spans that opens onto the courtyard of St. Damaz in the Vatican Palace, in Rome.) These paintings were commissioned by Pope Leo X.)

In 1508, Pope Julius II (1503-1513) instructed the architect D. Bramante to build a gallery with which to open the view of the Eternal City. The architect began work, but died in 1514. Construction completed under Pope Leo X (1513-1521) close relative Bramante - a young Raphael Santi from Urbino (1483-1520). In the years 1517-1519. Vaults, walls, pilasters of the loggia painted the pupils of Raphael: Perino del Vaga, Giulio Romano, Giovanni da Udine, F. Penny. The motifs of reliefs and ornamental paintings are inspired by antique grotesques - the decor, discovered in 1481 in the ruins of the "Golden House" and the term of Trajan in Rome. The loggia is divided into 13 sections. In each part there are four small compositions; Four plots from the New Testament (in the first vault) and forty-eight scenes from the Old Testament (in the remaining sections) - only 52 paintings on biblical subjects framed by grotesques. Because of these paintings, the paintings of the Vatican loggias were called the "Raphael Bible" (Italian "Biblia di Raffaello"). "The Raphael Bible" made a great impression on the Russian Empress Catherine II. In the years 1778-1787. At her request in Rome, under the guidance of JF Raiffenstein and H. Unterberger, "copies" of Vatican paintings were taken to recreate the "Raphael Loggias" in the St. Petersburg Hermitage. Under the project of the architect G. Quarenghi they were included in the building of the Old Hermitage and inaugurated in 1787. Later, in 1842-1851, when the New Hermitage building was constructed under the project of L. von Klenze, the loggias were preserved, and now they can be admired Not only in Rome, but also in Northern Palmyra.

Artist Biography:
Raphael, Italian in full Raffaello Sanzio or Raffaello Santi was a master painter and architect of the Italian High Renaissance. Raphael is best known for his Madonnas and for his large figure compositions in the Vatican. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. See less