Joshua renews the Covenant at Shechem published 1675
Etching | 8.0 x 22.9 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853688
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An etching by Pietro Santi Bartoli reproducing, in reverse, the almost entirely destroyed fresco Joshua renews the Covenant at Shechem painted by the workshop of Raphael (c.1517-19) in the basamento of the tenth bay of the Raphael Loggia in the Vatican. Numbered at lower right: 9. Trimmed within platemark. Published in Imagines veteris ac novi Testamenti in Vaticani Palatii (1675).
According to Dacos (see Bibliographic References), the basamento paintings of the Raphael Loggia in the Vatican were executed in grisaille and imitated bronze reliefs.Provenance
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
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Medium and techniques
Etching
Measurements
8.0 x 22.9 cm (sheet of paper)
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Bibliographic reference(s)
Davidson 1985 : Davidson, Bernice F. Raphael's Bible. A Study of the Vatican Logge, 1985 fig.87
Dacos 2008: Dacos, N., The Loggia of Raphael: A Vatican Art Treasure, 2008 pp. 173-194
Alternative title(s)
Prædicauerunt ubique Domino cohonerante sermone confirmante sequentibus signis. Mar. i6