Tapestries
Tapestries
LUDWIG GRÜNER (1801-82)
The Conversion of Saul
dated 1864Engraving | 55.0 x 72.8 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853139
A print after a tapestry illustrating 'The Conversion of Saul' now in the Vatican Museums (inv. no.43872), one from a set of ten tapestries commissioned by Pope Leo X for the Sistine Chapel. Dated, and lettered with title and production details.
The tapestry designs were executed by Raphael and his workshop and transported to Flanders, where the tapestries were woven in the workshop of Pieter van Aelst. Three of the original cartoons are lost, including that of 'The Conversion of Saul'. The remaining seven are now in the Victoria and Albert Museum on loan from the Royal Collection. The ten original tapestries, intended to be hung in the Sistine Chapel, are housed in the Vatican Museums.
The tapestry designs were executed by Raphael and his workshop and transported to Flanders, where the tapestries were woven in the workshop of Pieter van Aelst. Three of the original cartoons are lost, including that of 'The Conversion of Saul'. The remaining seven are now in the Victoria and Albert Museum on loan from the Royal Collection. The ten original tapestries, intended to be hung in the Sistine Chapel, are housed in the Vatican Museums.
Creator(s)
Ludwig Grüner (1801-82) (engraver)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (designer)
Nicola Consoni (1814-84) (designer)
Arundel Society : London (publisher)
55.0 x 72.8 cm (sheet of paper)
THE CONVERSION OF SAUL.
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
