Tapestries
Tapestries
The miraculous draught of fishes
published 1609Chiaroscuro woodcut from three blocks | 22.6 x 34.7 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853020
The Windsor drawing is a study for the final composition of 'The Miraculous Draught of Fishes', one from a set of ten tapestry cartoons commissioned from Raphael by Pope Leo X illustrating episodes from the lives of St Peter and St Paul. The tapestries, woven in the Brussels workshop of Pieter van Aelst and intended to be hung in the Sistine Chapel, are now in the Vatican Museums. For further discussion, see Bibliographic References.
Creator(s)
Attributed to Giuseppe Niccolò Vicentino (active c. 1530-50) (wood cutter)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
Andrea Andreani (1560-1623) (publisher)
Previously attributed to Ugo da Carpi (c. 1480-1532) (wood cutter)
22.6 x 34.7 cm (sheet of paper)
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Subject(s)
- Religion & Theology
- Religions and faiths
- Christianity
- Life of Christ
- Public Life of Christ
- Christ Calling the Apostles
- Christ-Miraculous Draught of Fishes
- Christ Calling the Apostles
- Public Life of Christ
- Life of Christ
- Christianity
- Religions and faiths
- Natural Sciences & Mathematics
- Zoology
- Animals
- Fish
- Animals
- Zoology
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
- Tapestries
- Tapestry designs
- Tapestry cartoons of Raphael (Acts of the Apostles)
- Tapestry designs
- Tapestries
- Religion & Theology
Bibliographic reference(s)
pp.129-30, under no.I.1 (entry by Stefania Massari) (Raphael Invenit 1985 : Bernini Pezzini, G. et al., 1985. Raphael Invenit. Stampe di Raffaello nelle Collezioni dell'Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome)
p.482, no.H 1.1A (Höper 2001 : Höper, C. Raffael und die Folgen, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001)
p.124, no.49 (Matile 2003 : Matile, M. Holzschnitte der Renaissance und des Barock: Bestandskatalog der Graphischen Sammlung der ETH Zurig, Basel 2003)
pp.142-3, no.26 (entry by Raimondo Sassi) (Ugo da Carpi 2009 : Ugo da Carpi, l'opera incisa : xilografie e chiaroscuri da Tiziano, Raffaello e Parmigianino / a cura di Manuela Rossi, 2009)
