print
- Museum number
- 1856,0112.257
- Title
- Series: Christ and Apostles
- Description
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St Philip contemplating a small cross which he holds in his right hand, holding a closed book in his left.
Engraving
- Production date
- 1517-1527
- Dimensions
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Height: 194 millimetres
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Width: 135 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Copy after Marcantonio Raimondi's engraving of the same subject, see 1857,0711.6. Marcantonio's original is part of a series of thirteen prints representing the Saviour and the twelve Apostles after those painted by Raphael in the Sala dei Palafrenieri in the Vatican in 1517. These designs were also replicated in fresco on the pilasters of the church of S. Vincenzo and Anastasio alle Tre Fontane in Rome and have been linked by Harprath to the designs used for the silver statuettes (now lost) commissioned between 1518-19 by Leo X for the altar of the Sistine Chapel.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1856
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1856,0112.257