The Temptation of Adam and Eve

Details

After Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael
The Temptation of Adam and Eve
oil on panel
54.2 x 40.5 cm.
inscribed with two coats-of-arms with monograms 'HT' (lower left) and 'BG' (lower right)

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Lot Essay

The present composition derives from the engraving that Marcantonio Raimondi based on a design by Raphael in the Ashmolean, Oxford (see P. Joannides, The Drawings of Raphael, Oxford, 1983, p. 165, no. 132v, illustrated). The drawing may have been a first design for the Stanza della Segnatura vault in the Vatican Palace, Rome, to be executed by Il Sodoma but subsequently replaced by Raphael with a different design, executed by himself.

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