Two Biblical Scenes: The Apostles Showing Christ their Swords and the Pope Celebrates Mass with Four Priests
after Raphael (Urbino 1483 – Rome 1520)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
c. 1650 - 1700
Materials
Ink on paper.
Measurements
125 x 256 mm
Collection
Saltram, Devon
NT 873018.8.9
Caption
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/650200
Summary
(Folio 3, recto, upper middle print) Two Biblical Scenes: The Apostles Showing Christ their Swords at left, after Raphael's Stanza della Segnatura and the Pope Celebrates Mass with Four Priests, after Raphael's Stanza di Eliodoro, from a series of 15 plates depicting Raphael's works for the Vatican stanze and the Sistine Chapel tapestries
Marks and inscriptions
Lower left: Lettered at lower left 'Domine ecce duo gladij hic. Luc 22.'; signed at lower left 'Rafael Sanctio / Vrbinas Inu.' and at lower right 'Petrus Sanctus Bar: / tolus del. et scul.'; signed in plate at lower right 'Io. Iacobus de Rubeis formis Romæ ad Temp. Pacis eu Pri S. P.' and lettered at lower right 'Sacrificium mißæ à summo Pontifice celebratum'
Makers and roles
after Raphael (Urbino 1483 – Rome 1520), creator Pietro Santi Bartoli (1635-1700), painter