Offerritueel
1645 - 1700
Medium
etching
Dimensions
131; 178
About this artwork
Prent uit een reeks naar de gipsen reliëfs door Rafaël en uitgevoerd door zijn assistenten in de Vaticaanse Loggia.
Art Historical Context
"Offerritueel" (Sacrifice Ritual) a delicate etching by Pietro Sante Bartoli, a prominent 17th-century Italianaver active between 1645 and 1700. Measuring just 131mm by 178mm, this print captures a dramatic moment of ritual offering, drawn from the intricate plaster reliefs adorning Raphael's Loggia in the Vatican Palace. Created as part of a series, Bartoli's work faithfully reproduces these Renaissance masterpieces, originally designed by Raphael around 1517–1519 and executed by his skilled assistants. The Vatican Loggia, a sunlit corridor in the Apostolic Palace, features over 50 such stuc...
About the Artist
Pietro Sante Bartoli · 1615–1700
Pietro Santi Bartoli, born in Perugia in 1635, emerged as a pivotal figure in the Roman antiquarian revival of the late seventeenth century. Relocating to Rome as a youth, he initially pursued painting, studying under the French artist Jean Lemaire—known as "Le Petit Lemaire"—and later under the esteemed Nicolas Poussin, whose classical rigor profoundly shaped his early approach. Though traces of ...