Tapestries
Tapestries
JOHN BURNET (1784-1868)
St Paul Preaching at Athens
c.1804-1858Etching on steel | 59.0 x 80.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853191
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 title, production details and Bible quote (Acts 17, 23).
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)
John Burnet (1784-1868) (etcher)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (designer)
Hawkins, S.H. (printer)
David Bogue : Fleet Street, London (publisher)
59.0 x 80.0 cm (sheet of paper)
54.8 x 66.0 cm (platemark)
PAUL PREACHING AT ATHENS.
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
