The emperor Constantine I presents Rome and the Papal States to the Pope Silvester I. Engraving by L. Fabri after G. Conca after Raphael.

  • Raphael, 1483-1520.
Date:
1800-1899
Reference:
3048839i
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Description

The apocryphal Donation of Constantine, a forged precedent for the Donation of Pepin, under which the Pope received sovereignty over the Papal States

Publication/Creation

[Rome] : [Luigi Fabri?]

Physical description

1 print : engraving, with etching ; platemark 59 x 77.4 cm

Contributors

Lettering

Raphael Sanctius pinx. in aedibus vaticanis. Pio septimo pont. max. bonarum artium restitutori ac vindici d.d.d. Aloysius Fabri. Jacobus Conca delineavit. Aloysius Fabri sculp. Romae.

References note

G.B. Pezzini, S. Massari, S.P. Valenti Rodinò, Raphael invenit, Roma: Edizioni Quasar, 1985, pp. 114, 519

Reference

Wellcome Collection 3048839i

Creator/production credits

Dedicated to Pius VII, to whom the Papal States had been or would be restored in 1815 after their annexation by Napoleon I in 1809

Reproduction note

After a fresco in the Stanza di Constantino in the Vatican, painted from designs by Raphael

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