The Deluge - Cesare Fantetti Etching after Raphael - 1674
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Original etching and engraving with the Flood after Raphael's fresco in the Vatican Loggias: the drowned in the foreground and the ark in the distance. At the foot: "Cataractae coeli apertae sunt et aquae praevaluerunt super terram, consumptaq. est omnis caro. Gen. VII". Number 10 in the series.
Original etching and engraving with the Flood after Raphael's fresco in the Vatican Loggias: the drowned in the foreground and the ark in the distance. At the foot: "Cataractae coeli apertae sunt et aquae praevaluerunt super terram, consumptaq. est omnis caro. Gen. VII". Number 10 in the series.
The series Imagines Veteris ac Novi Testamenti, known as Raphael's Bible, translated into print the frescoes Raphael and his workshop painted in the Vatican Loggias. It was published in Rome by Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi in 1674, with images by Cesare Fantetti and Pietro Aquila.
Medium: Etching and engraving.
Artist / after: Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520), Vatican Loggias.
Engraver: Cesare Fantetti, active in Rome in the last third of the 17th century.
Date: 1674.
Source: Imagines Veteris ac Novi Testamenti, Rome, Gio. Giacomo de Rossi, 1674.
Dimensions: Plate mark 9.8 x 10.2 in (25 x 26 cm); sheet 14.6 x 18.9 in (37 x 48 cm).
Condition: Paper browned at the edges, with damp stains in the upper right corner and wear in the lower margin; within the plate mark clean and well printed.
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Original etching and engraving with the Flood after Raphael's fresco in the Vatican Loggias: the drowned in the foreground and the ark in the distance. At the foot: "Cataractae coeli apertae sunt et aquae praevaluerunt super terram, consumptaq. est omnis caro. Gen. VII". Number 10 in the series.