Tapestries
Tapestries
MICHELANGELO MARTINI (1806-82)
The Sacrifice at Lystra
c.1826-1872Engraving | 49.4 x 50.8 cm (platemark) | RCIN 853168
A print after the tapestry of 'The Sacrifice at Lystra' (Acts of the Apostles, Chapter 14, 8-18), one of a set of ten tapestries illustrating episodes from the lives of St Peter and St Paul commissioned by Pope Leo X for the Sistine Chapel. Below the central scene is a horizontal border depicting stories from the Acts of the Apostles flanking Medicean emblems (at centre).
Lettered with production details, dedication and dedicatee's coat of arms. On watermarked paper, with pencil annotations. Described as from Pietro de Brognoli's series of prints after Raphael's Stanze frescoes and Sistine Chapel tapestries dated 1874 (Höper 2001). Not in Ruland (1876).
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. Seven of the tapestry cartoons survive (including that of 'The Sacrifice at Lystra'), now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, on loan from the Royal Collection. The ten original tapestries, intended to be hung in the Sistine Chapel, are housed in the Vatican Museums.
Lettered with production details, dedication and dedicatee's coat of arms. On watermarked paper, with pencil annotations. Described as from Pietro de Brognoli's series of prints after Raphael's Stanze frescoes and Sistine Chapel tapestries dated 1874 (Höper 2001). Not in Ruland (1876).
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. Seven of the tapestry cartoons survive (including that of 'The Sacrifice at Lystra'), now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 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)
Michelangelo Martini (1806-82) (engraver)
Pietro Brognoli (active c. 1874) (dedicator)
Pf. 32. A. / Cartoons VIII 2a
A. VIII. 2a
P.M [cropped]
49.4 x 50.8 cm (platemark)
S.PAOLO E S.BARNABA IN LISTRI
- Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (after 1876)
Subject(s)
- Religion & Theology
- Religions and faiths
- Religions of antiquity
- Sacrifices
- Religions of antiquity
- Religions and faiths
- 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
- Religion & Theology
Bibliographic reference(s)
p.133, no.VIII.2 (entry by Grazia Bernini Pezzini) (Raphael Invenit 1985 : Bernini Pezzini, G. et al., 1985. Raphael Invenit. Stampe di Raffaello nelle Collezioni dell'Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome)
p.491, no.H 8.6 (Höper 2001 : Höper, C. Raffael und die Folgen, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001)
