Arca Domini circuit Civitatem: A Spectacular Lunette from the Vatican Loggia by Raphael, 1772-1774

Title: Arca Domini circuit Civitatem, et clangentibus Tubis Jericho corruerunt Moeniia. Iosue C. VI. Author: Giovanni Ottaviani  Date: 1772-1774 Condition: See bottom of description Inches: 25 x 22 [Image] Centimeters: 63.5 x 55.88 [Image] Product ID: 308143 A Spectacular Lunette from the Vatican Loggia “The Ark of the Lord surrounds the city, and the walls of Jericho fall to the sound of the Trumpets.” Superb contemporary colored engraved plates, printed in taupe ink on two joined sheets, designed originally by the painter Gaetano Savorelli (d.1791), drawn by the architect Pietro Camporesi (1726-1781), and here engraved by Giovanni Ottaviani (1735-1808), with privilege from Pope Clement XIV (1705-1774). Rafael Sanzio da Urbino (1483 - 1520), better known in English as Raphael, left Florence for Rome, presumably because he had heard that there were private rooms in the Vatican, then under Pope Julius II, that needed redecorating. In 1509, he was commissioned for one