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Moses parts the Red Sea dated 1740
Chiaroscuro woodcut printed from three blocks | 22.5 x 34.8 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853531
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A chiaroscuro woodcut reproducing, in reverse, the fresco of Moses parts the Red Sea painted by the workshop of Raphael (c.1517-19) in the vault of the eighth bay of the Raphael Loggia in the Vatican. Signed and dated by the printmaker along the bottom and inscribed bottom left: Ex Raph Urbinatis Schede. Not in Ruland (1876).
Zanetti revived the chiaroscuro woodcut, a prevalent technique of sixteenth-century Italian printmaking. Zanetti published a collection of chiaroscuro woodcuts, primarily after works by Parmigianino, but also including some after Raphael, in the late 1720s under the title Diversarum Iconum and again in a third edition of 1749 with the title Raccolta di varie stampe...'. See RCINs 853407, 853424, 853429, 853437, 853457 and 853471 for other chiaroscuro woodcuts by Zanetti after Loggia frescoes.Provenance
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
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Medium and techniques
Chiaroscuro woodcut printed from three blocks
Measurements
22.5 x 34.8 cm (sheet of paper)
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annotation: P [verso, centre, in ink]
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Ruland : Ruland, C., 1876. The Works of Raphael Santi da Urbino as represented in the Raphael Collection in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle, formed by the Prince Consort, 1853-1861 and completed by Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Weimar – Ruland p.221 B.XXXI.7(add)Bibliographic reference(s)
Davidson 1985 : Davidson, Bernice F. Raphael's Bible. A Study of the Vatican Logge, 1985 fig.71
Dacos 2008: Dacos, N., The Loggia of Raphael: A Vatican Art Treasure, 2008 pl.129, p.171