Ad Testem in judicio: A Spectacular Lunette from the Vatican Loggia by Raphael, 1772-1774

Title: Ad Testem in judicio 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: 308151 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 of the rooms. He was very successful, and quickly became second only to Michelangelo, the most important artist in the Vatican. He would remain there for the rest of his short life. Raphael and his assistants made the wall an