Decorative pilaster with fruit, flowers, and tendrils

by Raphael. Raffaello Sanzio d'Urbino

$3,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A highly decorative print from the famous Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano series, with later professional hand-colouring. A very fine image from the first part of a work titled Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano depicting the decorative work and executed by Raphael and his assistants between 1518-1519 in the Vatican. This remarkable print, one of the first to be published of the decoration of the Logge on the main storey of the Vatican apartments, was probably planned as early

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