Rare-Antique Master Print-THE ASCENTION OF CHRIST-GDW-Raphael-16th.c.

Medium: Engraving on hand laid (vergé) with narrow chainlines paper. Watermark: Gothic P.

Sheet size: 14.5 x 10.8 cm (5.71 x 4.25 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Trimmed with loss on left side. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

THE ASCENTION OF CHRIST | PCO-E27-02

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

From a rere series of twenty plates about the ‘acts of the apostles’, published in the second half of the 16th.c. Partly based on the famous tapestry in the Sixtine Chappel. Extremely rare!.

State: I of II (unnumbered).

Reference: Hollstein 8 (vol. XIII p.36); Nagler II 2882.

Biography engraver: The mongrammist GDW are often linted to a printmaker from Brussels or to Giovanni da Udine from the circle of Raphael.

Biography artist: Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (1483-1520), known as Raphael, was one of the leading figures of the Italian High Renaissance. Active in Florence and Rome, he is celebrated for his harmonious compositions and clarity of form. His frescoes in the Vatican, including the Loggia decorations, profoundly influenced generations of artists and printmakers.