Tapestries
Tapestries
THOMAS HOLLOWAY (1748-1827)
St Paul Preaching at Athens
published 1 July 1806Engraving | 53.5 x 64.0 cm (platemark) | RCIN 853190
A print after the cartoon designed by Raphael for the tapestry of 'St Paul Preaching at Athens' (Acts of the Apostles, Chapter 17, 16-34), 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. Lettered with titles, production details and dedication to the King.
Seven of the original 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 were woven in the workshop of Pieter van Aelst and are currently housed in the Vatican Museums.
Seven of the original 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 were woven in the workshop of Pieter van Aelst and are currently housed in the Vatican Museums.
Creator(s)
Thomas Holloway (1748-1827) (printmaker)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (designer)
Thomas Holloway (1748-1827) (designer)
Hampton Court : Thomas Holloway (publisher)
A. IX. 2.
53.5 x 64.0 cm (platemark)
PAUL PREACHING AT ATHENS. / PAULUS AD ATHENIENSES.
- Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Subject(s)
- Places
- Europe
- Greece
- Attiki [Greece]
- Athens [Greece]
- Areopagus [Athens]
- Athens [Greece]
- Attiki [Greece]
- Italy
- Lazio [Italy]
- Rome [Lazio]
- Vatican City [Rome]
- Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
- Sistine Chapel [Vatican Palace]
- Vatican-Sistine Chapel tapestries
- Sistine Chapel [Vatican Palace]
- Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
- Vatican City [Rome]
- Rome [Lazio]
- Lazio [Italy]
- Greece
- Europe
- Places
Bibliographic reference(s)
pp.134-5, no.X.11 (entry by Grazia Bernini Pezzini) (Raphael Invenit 1985 : Bernini Pezzini, G. et al., 1985. Raphael Invenit. Stampe di Raffaello nelle Collezioni dell'Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome)
