Tapestries
Tapestries
AFTER A WORK BY THE WORKSHOP OF RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)
St Paul preaching at Athens
c.1860-76Carbon print | 26.5 x 34.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853195
A photograph of a drawing now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (inv. no.3884r). Both the authorship of the sheet and its role have often been questioned. Sometimes described as the original modello attributed to Giovan Francesco Penni for the Sistine Chapel tapestry of this subject, it is now generally thought to be a copy, perhaps of Raphael's own modello.
Two almost identical drawings of this subject survive in the Uffizi, Florence (inv. no.1217 E) and in the Metropolitan Museum, New York (Vanderbilt Donation, inv. no.80-3-30), both of which are also considered to be copies. It has been suggested that they also may have been copied from the same lost original modello by Raphael.
The tapestry of 'St Paul Preaching at Athens' 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
Two almost identical drawings of this subject survive in the Uffizi, Florence (inv. no.1217 E) and in the Metropolitan Museum, New York (Vanderbilt Donation, inv. no.80-3-30), both of which are also considered to be copies. It has been suggested that they also may have been copied from the same lost original modello by Raphael.
The tapestry of 'St Paul Preaching at Athens' 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)
After a work by the workshop of Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
After a work copying Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
26.5 x 34.0 cm (sheet of paper)
Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1860-76)
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)
p.265; p.280, no.413 (Cordellier/Py 1992 : Raphael : son atelier, ses copistes, 1992 / par Dominique Cordellier et Bernadette Py, Paris (Inventaire general des dessins Italiens ; V / sous la direction de Francoise Viatte))
