Tapestries
Tapestries
AFTER RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)
St Paul striking Elymas blind in front of the proconsul Sergius Paulus
Etching | 24.2 x 30.9 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853158
An anonymous outline-etching showing the vertical strips into which the Raphael's cartoon of 'The Conversion of the Proconsul' had been cut.
The cartoon of 'The Conversion of the Proconsul' (Acts of the Apostles, Chapter 13, 6-12) was executed by Raphael and his workshop 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. The cartoon reproduced in this print is one of the seven that have survived; they are all part of the Royal Collection, and since 1865 are on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. The ten original tapestries were woven in the workshop of Pieter van Aelst and are currently housed in the Vatican Museums.
Creator(s)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (designer)
24.2 x 30.9 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