An antique engraving on laid paper, A History of the Sacred History by Raphael Urbin in the Vatican Terraces for the Miracle of Painting, 1649, from the series of etchings Biblical Scenes in the Vatican Loggia by master engraver Nicolas Chaperon (French, 1612-1656). After the frescoes by Raffaello Sanzio known as Raphael (Italian, 1483–1520), in the Vatican Loggia. Signed, titled, and inscribed lower to the center and left. Additionally inscribed in ink on the back. Raphael, an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. Nicolas Chaperon, a French painter, draughtsman and engraver, a student in Paris of Simon Vouet whose style he adopted before he was further matured by his stay in Rome (1642–51) in the studio of Nicolas Poussin. Graphic art prints and collectibles.