Raphael, Imagines veteris ac novi testamenti, Rome, 1674, half calf

[Raffaello Sanzio]

Imagines Veteris ac Novi Testamenti a Raphaele... in Vaticani palatii Xystis mira picturae elegantia expressae. Rome: Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi, 1674

oblong folio (367 x 475mm.), 55 plates in total, comprising: engraved title-page with portrait of Christina of Sweden, engraving of Raphael's tomb, engraved plates numbered 1-52 and a final unnumbered plate, engraved by Pietro Aquila or Cesare Fantetti, early nineteenth-century half calf, boards detached, binding worn

A fine series of plates of Raphael's frescos in the Loggie of the Vatican, representing mostly scenes from the Old Testament with a couple from the New. They were completed in 1519, shortly before Raphael's death.