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Description: Raffaello Sanzio d'Urbino (1483-1520). Psyches et Amoris nuptiæ ac fabula... a Nicolao Dorigny... delineata et incisa, et a Ioanne Petro Bellorio notis illustrata. [Rome:] sons & heirs of Domenico and Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, 15 August 1693 , engraved througout, illustration : title-page and 11 plates, numbered 1-12 2 works in one volume, oblong folio (485 x 718mm.), binding : eighteenth-century speckled calf, short tear at foot of first 3 leaves, just touching image of first dedication leaf, binding rubbed, joints split

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Published: Berlin Catalogue 4088 & 4066

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Notes: Annibale Carracci was called to Rome in 1595 by Cardinal Farnese to decorate the Galleria Farnese. He began with a small room, the Camerino, painting the stories of Hercules, and in 1597 undertook the ceiling of the larger gallery with theme of the loves of the Gods or, as Bellori described it, 'human love governed by celestial love'. The ceiling was inspired by Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel and Raphael's frescoes in the Vatican Loggia. The second work in this volume depicts Raphael's Cupid and Psyche frescoes, painted between 1516 and 1518 at the Villa Farnesina in Rome. The plates were engraved by the Frenchman Nicolas Dorigny (1658-1746), who worked in Rome between 1690 and 1719. They include at the end one of the ceiling frescoes in the Sala di Galatea.