Sereniss.mo Principi Leopoldo Medices Leonis X admirandæ uirtutis Imagines, ab Hetruriæ legatione ad Pontificatum à Raphaele Vrbinate, ad uiuum, et ad miraculum expressas, in Aulæis Vaticanis, textili monocromate elaboratas ... in lucem publicam eniteant
This is a 1680 Roman engraved series by Pietro Santo Bartoli after Raphael's Vatican tapestry cartoons, published in Rome for the Medici prince Leopoldo and held by Heidelberg University Library. The plates are horizontal panoramic scenes of crowded processions, mounted soldiers and reclining figures in tight bands of figures. A designer might take from them the frieze-like staging of many figures across a shallow stage, with horses, armour and drapery providing rhythm and repeated silhouettes.
