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Tapestries

Tapestries

AFTER RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)

Set of photographs of details from 'St Paul Preaching at Athens'

c.1853-76

Albumen prints | RCIN 853193

A set of two photographs showing details from the cartoon of 'St Paul Preaching at Athens' (Acts of Apostles, Chapter 17, 16-34), executed by Raphael and his workshop for one of the ten tapestries illustrating episodes from the lives of St Peter and St Paul commissioned by Pope Leo X for the Sistine Chapel. The photographed cartoon is one of the seven that have survived, all of which are now in the Victoria and Albert Museum on loan from the Royal Collection. The ten original tapestries were woven in the workshop of Pieter van Aelst and are currently housed in the Vatican Museums.
  • Creator(s)

    After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (designer)

  • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

  • Subject(s)
    • Places
      • Europe
        • Greece
          • Attiki [Greece]
            • Athens [Greece]
              • Areopagus [Athens]
        • Italy
          • Lazio [Italy]
            • Rome [Lazio]
              • Vatican City [Rome]
                • Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
                  • Sistine Chapel [Vatican Palace]
                    • Vatican-Sistine Chapel tapestries