1649 RAPHAEL Genesis Biblical Engraving “Let there be Light” Framed SIGNED COA$2,674.00
1649 RAPHAEL Genesis Biblical Engraving “Let there be Light” Framed SIGNED COA
$2,674.00
Artist: Raphael (Italian, 1483-1520)
Title: And God said, “Let there be light,”
Medium: Antique engraving on laid paper after the original by master engraver Nicolas Chaperon (French, 1612 – 1656).
Year: 1649
Signature: Signed in the plate, lower left.
Dimensions: Image Size 7 1/4 x 12 1/2 inches.
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 15 1/4 x 20 1/2 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
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.)
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.
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