Live auction - Lot 292
Scenes from Genesis.
Subject: [Italian]
VILLAMENA, Francesco. After Raphael
€ 100 / 120
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Lot description
Rome, 1626
2 engravings, 17,4 x 18,6 cm, laid paper with watermark (Heawood: 1594), wide margins, signed with monogram in plate at lower right corner (large damp stain over upper part of the print, Adam's genitals censored with brown ink).
Loose sheets.
The Creation of Eve and the Expulsion from Paradise. Part of a series (20 pl.) after Raphael's frescoes in the Vatican Loggia. With Latin quotations from the Bible in lower margin. Francesco Villamena (1564-1624) was a student of Cornelis Cort. These prints were issued after the artist's death.
Ref. LeBlanc 30.