The naming of Saint Peter as Head of the Church, after Raphael's Stanza dell'incendio del Borgo, from a series of 15 plates, depicting Raphael's works for the Vatican stanze and the Sistine Chapel tapestries
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 4 9/16 × 11 5/16 in. (11.6 × 28.8 cm) Plate: 4 1/16 × 10 3/8 in. (10.3 × 26.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1959
Accession Number
59.644.8(6)
About the Artist
Pietro Santi Bartoli|Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)|Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi · 1615–1700
Pietro Santi Bartoli, born in Perugia in 1635, emerged as a pivotal figure in the Roman antiquarian revival of the late seventeenth century. Relocating to Rome as a youth, he initially pursued painting, studying under the French artist Jean Lemaire—known as "Le Petit Lemaire"—and later under the esteemed Nicolas Poussin, whose classical rigor profoundly shaped his early approach. Though traces of ...