Lot Essay
Pietro Ferloni was head of the Papal workshop at San Michele, Rome, from 1717 to 1770
The San Michele a Ripa tapestry factory was founded by Pope Clement IX in the early 18th Century. The design is after Raphael's ceiling frescoes of the series of the life of Adam and Eve in the Loggia of the Vatican. The frescoes were executed by Raphael's students Giulio Romano, Giovanni Francesco Penni and Giovanni da Udine between 1516 and 1519
This lot forms part of a now incomplete series. Two further tapestries of the same group are now in the Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, one illustrated in O. Schmidt, 'Tapisserien im Zeichen der Kunst Raffaels', Exhibition Catalogue, Vienna, 1983, p. 18, illus. 7, and another in H. Göbel, Wandteppiche, Part II, Vol. II, no. 459
The San Michele a Ripa tapestry factory was founded by Pope Clement IX in the early 18th Century. The design is after Raphael's ceiling frescoes of the series of the life of Adam and Eve in the Loggia of the Vatican. The frescoes were executed by Raphael's students Giulio Romano, Giovanni Francesco Penni and Giovanni da Udine between 1516 and 1519
This lot forms part of a now incomplete series. Two further tapestries of the same group are now in the Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, one illustrated in O. Schmidt, 'Tapisserien im Zeichen der Kunst Raffaels', Exhibition Catalogue, Vienna, 1983, p. 18, illus. 7, and another in H. Göbel, Wandteppiche, Part II, Vol. II, no. 459