The Seven Famous Cartons [sic] of Raphael Urbin
1720
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1720
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
The Seven Famous Cartons [sic] of Raphael Urbin is a 1720 by Simon II Gribelin, a Baroque work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This print shows a reversed image of one of Raphael's famous cartoons. It's a detailed design for a large tapestry. You can see scenes from the Bible, with figures and buildings, in the print. The print is interesting because it's a copy of a much larger work. Raphael's original cartoons are huge, over 10 feet high and 13 feet wide. To learn more about the printing technique used to create this image, look up the technique of chiaroscuro.
This engraving by Simon Gribelin II, produced in 1720, reproduces in reverse one of the seven large-scale designs by Raphael for tapestries, illustrating biblical episodes from the lives of Saints Peter and Paul. Measuring over ten feet in height and thirteen feet in width, the original cartoons have been on loan to a museum since 1865. Gribelin’s print includes a caption in English and Latin that identifies the subject, biblical source, the artist, the engraver, and the location of the cartoons. His 1707 set of prints marked an early and influential attempt to reproduce Raphael’s designs…
Read the full account in the museum source.
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