Artist: Raphael (Italian, 1483-1520)
Medium: Antique engraving on laid paper after the original by master engraver Nicolas Chaperon (French, 1612 – 1656).
Signature: Signed in the plate, lower left.
Dimensions: Image size: 9 3/8 x 10 1/4 inches.
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 17 3/8 x 18 1/4 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
And Jacob had a dream about a ladder that rested on the earth with its top reaching up to heaven, and God’s angels were going up and down the ladder. ~Genesis 28:12
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.