print
- Museum number
- V,5.120
- Description
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St Cecilia standing nude in a large cauldron, in a gesture of prayer raises her eyes to the angel above who holds a martyr's crown; two figures hold out the severed heads of the saint's husband and brother-in-law; at left, under a colonnade, sits a Roman Prefect, at right the statue of Jupiter in a niche; all around are soldiers; after Raphael, copy after Marcantonio
Engraving
- Production date
- 1525-1599
- Dimensions
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Height: 232 millimetres
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Width: 395 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Copy after Marcantonio's print erroneously described by Bartsch as the 'Martyrdom of St. Felicity'. The design is after a preparatory drawing by Raphael for the fresco of the Martyrdom of St. Cecilia in the Chapel of S. Giovanni in the Villa Pontificia, Magliana commissioned by Leo X and executed by the School of Raphael between 1517-19. There are associated drawings in Dresden and at the Albertina. For further bibliography: Innis H.Shoemaker, 'The Engravings of Marcantonio Raimondi', Spencer Museum of Art, 1981, cat. 55.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- V,5.120