The great Raffaello too used paper from Fabriano!

The great Raffaello Sanzio (Raphael) too used paper made in Fabriano. The correspondence to the watermarks present in the drawings and sketches of Raphael with the historic ones collected by Professor Augusto Zonghi in 1884, and preserved by Fondazione Fedrigoni Fabriano, has in fact enabled us to prove to what extent the paper manufactured in Fabriano, had achieved such prestige between the XV and XVI century, as to be used by the most loved artists at the court of Pope Julius II, above all  Michelangelo and Raphael.

Amongst the most interesting specimens was the watermark with the Gothic ‘T’ or ‘Tau’ present on the drawing La Strage degli Innocenti (Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest - inv. 2195) akin to the watermark no. 1430 of Zonghi’s collection which reproduces the ‘Tau’, symbol of the ‘Brotherhood of the Order of the Cavalrymen of Tau’ that inspired frequent artistic-architectural decorations in Fabriano.

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