St Paul Preaching at Athens

A print after the tapestry of The Sacrifice at Lystra now in the Vatican Museums (inv. no.43874), one from a set of ten tapestries illustrating episodes from the lives of St Peter and St Paul commissioned by Pope Leo X for the Sistine Chapel. Dated. Numbered at upper right: no. 16. Lettered with title in Latin and artists' names.

The tapestry designs were executed by Raphael and his workshop and transported to Flanders, where the tapestries were woven in the workshop of Pieter van Aelst. Seven of the tapestry cartoons survive (including that of St Paul Preaching at Athens), now in the Victoria and Albert Museum on loan from the Royal Collection. The ten original tapestries, intended to be hung in the Sistine Chapel, are housed in the Vatican Museums.