Letter from Signorelli to Corrado Tarlatini (recto), paper, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, Ms. MA 4261 (purchased as the gift of Mrs. Landon K. Thorne, Jr., 1985). Copyright: Pierpont Morgan Library.
Raphael
1519
Prev Next- *.1519 Celio Calcagnini, in Rome, writes to Jacob Ziegler (in Ferrara?); he tells him of friends in Rome, in particular of Raphael, master of painting and architecture, an follower of Vetruvius. View Document
- *.1519 Inscription on an engraving by Agostino Veneziano on the base of a column in Constantinople. View Document
- 1.1.1519 Leonardo Sellaio, in Rome, to Michelangelo, in Florence: Sebastiano has finished the 'Resurrection of Lazarus' and the experts hold it to be superior to Raphael's. Agostino Chigi's vault has been uncovered and it is worse than the last room in the Vatican palace. View Document
- *.1519 Draft of Baldassarre Castiglione's sonnet, 'Quando il tempo'. View Document
- *.1519 Elegy by Castiglione ' QVA FINGIT HIPPOLYTEN SVAM AD SEIPSVM SCRIBENTEM'. View Document
- *.1519 Epigram of Celio Calcagnini regarding Raphael’s studies of ancient Rome. View Document
- *.1519 The Letter to Leo X (Mantua ms.) View Document
- *.1519 Letter to Leo X (Maffei version) View Document
- *.1519 Letter to Leo X (Munich Mss.) View Document
- 8.1.1519 Giacomo Costabili, in Rome, writes to Obizzone Remo, in Ferrara: he asks for 25 scudi to send to Beltrame Costabili to repay a loan from the Strozzi bank, used to pay Raphael on the Duke's orders. View Document
- 15.1.1519 Benedetto Buondelmonti, in Rome, writes to Goro Gheri, in Florence: the Pope has travelled to his Villa Madama by horse, to observe building works. View Document
- 20.1.1519 Alfonso Paolucci, in Rome, writes to Duke Alfonso d'Este, in Ferrara: the Pope inspects the Via Leonina (Via Ripetta). View Document
- 20.1.1519 Benedetto Buondelmonti, in Rome, writes to Goro Gheri, in Florence: a parish in the diocese of Urbino, San Sergio, is about to become vacant. Raphael appears to have some rights to it. View Document
- 30.1.1519 Gabriello Paccagli, in Paris, writes to Michelangelo in 'Rome o dove sia', saying, amongst other things, that the Pope has sent three Raphaels to Francis I. View Document
- 1.2.1519 Beltrame Costabili, in Rome, scrive Obizzone Remo, in Ferrara, saying that Raphael will send the cartoon with the portrait of the Vice Queen of Naples and is able to paint it in oil. View Document
- 17.2.1519 Beltrame Costabili, in Rome, writes to Alfonso d'Este, in Ferrara: Raphael says that he does not wish to be hurried on the work for the Duke and he apologises for not having finished it sooner. View Document
- 17.2.1519 Beltrame Costabili is paid the 25 ducats needed by him to pay Raphael. View Document
- 28.2.1519 Francesco Bagnacavallo, in Rome, writes to Alfonso d'Este, in Ferrara: he too has encouraged Raphael, he only saw two drawings for a Meleager's Hunt and a Triumph of Bacchus, but nothing else has been done. Raphael promises to send them by Easter. View Document
- 1.3.1519 Raphael’s letter describing the Villa Madama. View Document
- 1.3.1519 Raphael's notes and corrections to Fabio Calvo's translation of Vitruvius View Document
- 2.3.1519 Beltrame Costabili informs Alfonso d'Este that Raphael has sent the Duke the portrait of the Vice-Queen of Naples, executed not by his own hand but by that of a 'garzone'. View Document
- 2.3.1519 Alfonso Paolucci informs Alfonso d'Este that everyone in Rome is distracted with carneval and masks and Raphael's commedia for Cardinal Cibo are on everyone's lips. View Document
- 5.3.1519 Benedetto Buondelmonti writes to Goro Gheri saying that Duke Lorenzo is wasting his time trying to give a benefice to his chaplain. Raphael's brother 'ha el regresso di questo beneficio'. View Document
- 5.3.1519 Beltrame Costabili writes to Alfonso d'Este saying that the Pope will return to the Vatican within the next day or two in order to attend Raphael's commedia. View Document
- 6.3.1519 Benedetto Buondelmonti writes to Goro Gheri saying that Raphael's commedia has been much acclaimed. View Document
- 8.3.1519 Alfonso Paolucci reports to Alfonso d'Este on 'I Suppositi' the commedia on which Raphael has been working. View Document
- 13.3.1519 Alfonso Paolucci informs Alfonso d'Este that after lunch the Pope visited Cardinal Medici's vineyard, where he intends to invest forty thousand ducats. View Document
- 14.3.1519 Antonio da Sangallo receives payment for work done in the Sala di Costantino. View Document
- 1.4.1519 Raphael is paid 1500 ducats for his work over five years as Architect of St Peter's. View Document
- 7.4.1519 Goro Gheri writes from Florence to Benedetto Buondelmonti, in Rome, saying that he has warned that the 'benefitio d'Urbino' (in San Giorgio) must be done by Raphael. View Document
- 30.4.1519 Alfonso d'Este reminds Alfonso Paolucci of the efforts made to encourage Raphael to complete 'un'opera de pictura'. Paolucci should ask for the help of Cardinal Cibo and consult Costabili. View Document
- 30.4.1519 Alfonso d'Este, in Ferrara, writes to Beltrame Costabili, in Rome: Paolucci should take over the task of pressing Raphael. View Document
- 4.5.1519 Alfonso Paolucci, in Rome, informs Alfonso d'Este that Cardinal Cibo will encourage Raphael, presently engaged on the 'tavola de Monsignor de' Medici'. View Document
- 4.5.1519 Marcantonio Michiel in Rome informs Antonio di Marsilio, in Venice, that Raphael has painted four rooms and a loggia for the Pope, that he is working on another two loggias and continues to be engaged on St Peter's. View Document
- 7.5.1519 Raphael is paid 400 ducats by Pope Leo X. View Document
- 14.5.1519 Alfonso Paolucci tells Alfonso d'Este that Raphael says that the Pope and the Duke are his main customers and that with Cardinal de' Medici away he is able to attend to the Duke's project. View Document
- 23.5.1519 Alfonso Paolucci assures Alfonso d'Este that he will do everything he can to reach an agreement with Raphael. View Document
- 28.5.1519 Federico Gonzaga asks Baldassarre Castiglione for four to six drawings by accomplished artists such as Michelangelo or Raphael to design his father's tomb. View Document
- 3.6.1519 Baldassarre Castiglione sends from Rome a drawing by Raphael to Federico Gonzaga. Michelangelo is not to be found in Rome. View Document
- 11.6.1519 Alfonso Paolucci, in Rome, assures Alfonso d'Este that he will soon seek to gain Raphael's trust and that he will attempt to see the painting that he is working on for the Duke. View Document
- 11.6.1519 Payment to the 'garzoni' who worked on the Loggia of the Vatican palace. View Document
- 12.6.1519 Federico Gonzaga thanks Baldassarre Castiglione for the drawing for the tomb and asks for his help purchasing antiquities for the 'camerini' of the Castello San Giorgio. View Document
- 16.6.1519 Baldassarre Castiglione tells Isabella Gonzaga of the Pope's love for music and architecture and of Raphael's beautiful new loggia and Cardinal de' Medici's vineyard. View Document
- 18.6.1519 Alfonso Paolucci writes to Alfonso d'Este saying that he has received an invitation to Raphael's home: thus he will be able to see the beginnings of the Duke's painting. He will try to go the following day. View Document
- 23.6.1519 Alfonso Paolucci writes to Alfonso d'Este saying that he had met Cardinal Cibo the previous day. He forgot to speak to him about Raphael, whom he has not yet met at the Cardinal's house. View Document
- 1.7.1519 Gianmatteo Giberti, Raphael and Giovanni Antonio Battiferri buy several loads of hay. View Document
- 2.7.1519 Alfonso Paolucci tells Alfonso d'Este that he has shown Cardinal Cibo the Duke's letter. The Cardinal will attempt to establish whether Raphael has begun the painting. View Document
- 4.7.1519 Marco Minio, in Rome, reports to the Venetian Senate regarding the arrival of three tapestries from Flanders and the recovery of an obelisk from the mausoleum of Augustus which Raphael intends to erect in St Peter's square. View Document
- 24.7.1519 Guglielmo de Marcillat opens an account for the stained glass windows of the Papal palace. View Document
- 20.8.1519 Alfonso Paolucci, in Rome, writes to Alfonso d'Este: he will begin negotiations at once with Raphael, and he hopes to visit him next Monday. Raphael anticipates being able to spend a month in Ferrara to finish the painting and other similarly desirable tasks. View Document
- 25.8.1519 Alfonso d'Este waits to learn what Alfonso Paolucci, in Rome, has seen at Raphael's home. [First manuscript draft of the letter]. View Document
- 28.8.1519 Agostino Chigi's will: inter alia, his chapel in Santa Maria del Popolo is to be completed according to designs known to Raphael and Antonio da San Marino. View Document
- *.9.1519 Alfonso Paolucci, in Rome, informs Alfonso d'Este that Castiglione reports that Raphael is working on 'una opera de la S.ra Marchionessna', Isabella d'Este, alone with his friend (Castiglione). View Document
- 3.9.1519 Alfonso Paolucci invites Alfonso d'Este to write directly to Raphael inviting him to Ferrara; in the meantime he will try again to view the paintings done for the Duke and Cardinal de' Medici. View Document
- 10.9.1519 Alfonso d'Este writes to Alfonso Paolucci angry for the wait and the continual delays to his commission from Raphael. View Document
- 12.9.1519 Alfonso Paolucci in Rome informs Alfonso d'Este that he has not been able to reach Raphael on the top floor of the painter's building, where he was working on Castiglione's portrait. He will return again to visit the artist. View Document
- 13.9.1519 Ten tapestries designed by Raphael for the Sistine Chapel appear in the inventory of Pope Leo X's 'Foreria'. View Document
- 17.9.1519 Alfonso Paolucci writes from Rome to Alfonso d' Este saying that he will negotiate with Raphael, whose artist's melancholy has worsened with his demands as an architect. He says that he will remind the artist of his commitments and inform him of the wishes of the Duke. View Document
- 21.9.1519 Alfonso d'Este writes from Ferrara asking Alfonso Paolucci, in Rome, to encourage Raphael. View Document
- *.10.1519 Giuliano Leno withdraws two thousand ducats from his account at St Peter's deriving from credit with the Pope. View Document
- 3.10.1519 Alfonso Paolucci, in Rome, tells Alfonso d'Este, in Ferrara, that he has spent time with Cardinal de' Medici at 'la vigna'. View Document
- 26.11.1519 Pandolfo Pico, in Rome, writes to Isabella d'Este, in Mantua, reporting on new constructions, including the excavations for the left crossing of St Peter's and the discovery therein of tombs. View Document
- 10.12.1519 Leonardo del Sellaio, in Rome, informs Michelangelo, in Florence: Sebastiano has finished the Resurrection of Lazarus; as regards the marbles, Michelangelo need not worry. View Document
- 17.12.1519 Francesco Masi becomes the owner of a vineyard near San Clemente, bordering Raphael's vineyard. View Document
- 26.12.1519 From the diary of Paris de Grassis, regarding the original location of the tapestries for the Sistine Chapel. View Document
- 27.12.1519 From the diary of Marcantonio Michiel: the hanging of the tapestries in the Sistine Chapel, the completion of the lower loggia and Leo's description of the loggia. View Document
- 29.12.1519 Sebastiano del Piombo, in Rome, writes to Michelangelo, in Florence, that his "Resurrection of Lazarus" has been finished and displayed in the Vatican and that, according to him, it is better than Raphael’s Sistine Chapel tapestries. View Document
