Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano

by Raphael. Raffaello Sanzio d'Urbino

$1,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

This beautiful perspective view of Raphael's Loggia, with contemporary colouring of the highest quality from the golden age of the hand-coloured print, served as the frontispiece to the celebrated text, Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano . This arresting print is a general perspective view of Raphael's design for the Loggia at the Vatican, with a large profile portrait of Raphael in a medallion over the entrance to the corridor. The plate served as the frontispiece to the first

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