Tapestries
Tapestries
MARCANTONIO RAIMONDI (C. 1480-1534)
St Paul Preaching at Athens
c.1517-1520Engraving | 26.5 x 35.6 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853194
An engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi depicting 'St Paul Preaching at Athens'.
This composition probably derives from the cartoon executed by Raphael for the tapestry of 'St Paul Preaching at Athens', which is one from a series of ten illustrating episodes from the lives of St Peter and St Paul commissioned from Raphael by Pope Leo X for the Sistine Chapel. For further discussion, see Bibliographic References.
This composition probably derives from the cartoon executed by Raphael for the tapestry of 'St Paul Preaching at Athens', which is one from a series of ten illustrating episodes from the lives of St Peter and St Paul commissioned from Raphael by Pope Leo X for the Sistine Chapel. For further discussion, see Bibliographic References.
Creator(s)
Marcantonio Raimondi (c. 1480-1534) (engraver)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (designer)
26.5 x 35.6 cm (sheet of paper)
- 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)
p.154, under no.47 (Shoemaker/Broun 1981 : I. Shoemaker and E. Broun. The Engravings of Marcantonio Raimondi 1981 : Spencer Museum of Art; The Ackland Art Museum, 1981)
