After Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael

A group of 66 etchings and engravings of architectural panels of Raphael's Vatican Loggie, and two title pages, by Johannes Ottaviani and Giovanni Volpato, 1772-1777
Sold as a collection of plates not subject to return

Each sheet with wide margins, in good condition apart from minor defects including pale fox marks, a few short tears at sheet edges, light surface soiling. Portfolio cover worn.
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The three storeys of balconies in the Vatican known as Raphael's Loggie were begun in 1514 by Donato Bramante; after Bramante's death that year, Raphael was appointed to oversee their completion and design their decoration. These decorations quickly became famous and several suites of plates based on them were published in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The present work, with magnificent designs reproduced from drawings made by the painter Gaetano Savorelli, draughtsman Ludovico Teseo and architect Pietro Camporesi and plates by Giovanni Volpato and Johannes Ottaviani, was the first to attempt to show all the decoration of the pilasters and pillars. These decorations influenced European designers for 300 years.