Tapestries
Tapestries
AFTER RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)
St Paul preaching at Athens
c.1750-1850Crayon manner, printed in reddish brown | 27.6 x 42.1 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853199
An anonymous facsimile of a drawing now in the Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi, Florence (inv. no.540E).
The drawing has sometimes been described as a preparatory study by Raphael for the cartoon of 'St Paul Preaching at Athens' now part of the Royal Collection (RCIN 912950, on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum), designed for one of the ten tapestries illustrating episodes from the lives of St Peter and St Paul commissioned by Pope Leo X for the Sistine Chapel. For a photograph of the Uffizi drawing, see RCIN 853198.
The drawing has sometimes been described as a preparatory study by Raphael for the cartoon of 'St Paul Preaching at Athens' now part of the Royal Collection (RCIN 912950, on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum), designed for one of the ten tapestries illustrating episodes from the lives of St Peter and St Paul commissioned by Pope Leo X for the Sistine Chapel. For a photograph of the Uffizi drawing, see RCIN 853198.
Creator(s)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
27.6 x 42.1 cm (sheet of paper)
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Subject(s)
- Places
- Europe
- 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]
- Italy
- Europe
- Places
