This website presents our knowledge and research on this important aspect of the Royal Collection. As of April 2026 it will not be regularly updated and new research on this topic will sit within the main website.

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Tapestries

Most notably the tapestries Raphael designed for the Sistine Chapel

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      These portfolios primarily contain prints and photographs relating to Raphael’s designs for tapestries for the Sistine Chapel, the seven surviving large-scale cartoons for which are on loan from the Royal Collection to the Victoria & Albert Museum. There are smaller groups of material concerning the Scuola Nuova tapestries and other tapestry designs associated with Raphael.

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