Melchizedek and Abraham - Engraving by Cesare Fantetti - Rome, 1674
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Original copper engraving with Melchizedek, king of Salem, offering bread and wine to Abraham on his return from battle, among amphorae and jars set out in the foreground. The Latin caption quotes Genesis: Ab hostium caede Abram reverso, Melchisedec rex Salem protulit panem et vinum.
Original copper engraving with Melchizedek, king of Salem, offering bread and wine to Abraham on his return from battle, among amphorae and jars set out in the foreground. The Latin caption quotes Genesis: Ab hostium caede Abram reverso, Melchisedec rex Salem protulit panem et vinum.
It reproduces one of the frescoes of Raphael's Loggias in the Vatican - the Raphael Bible - engraved by Cesare Fantetti for the Imagines Veteris ac Novi Testamenti published in Rome by Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi in 1674.
Medium: Etching and engraving.
Artist / after: After Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520).
Engraver: Cesare Fantetti.
Date: 1674.
Source: Imagines Veteris ac Novi Testamenti, Gio. Giacomo de Rossi, Rome, 1674; print No. 18.
Dimensions: Sheet 18.9 x 14.6 in (48 x 37 cm).
Condition: The image within the plate mark clean and well inked; toned paper with damp stains at the upper right and lower right corners, and wear at the edges of the sheet.
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Original copper engraving with Melchizedek, king of Salem, offering bread and wine to Abraham on his return from battle, among amphorae and jars set out in the foreground. The Latin caption quotes Genesis: Ab hostium caede Abram reverso, Melchisedec rex Salem protulit panem et vinum.