Tapestries
Tapestries
The stoning of St Stephen; St Paul in prison
c.1858-1910Engraving | 49.6 x 50.9 cm (platemark) | RCIN 853076
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 'The Stoning of St Stephen' and 'St Paul in Prison'. 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)
Friedrich Seifert (1838-1920) (engraver)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (designer)
Nicola Ortis (19th Century) (designer)
Angelo Biggi (active 19th century) (printer)
Count of Fonollar (active 19th century) (dedicatee)
Pietro Brognoli (active c. 1874) (dedicator)
Pf. 31. A. III 1a / ? Cut thin (?) [crossed out]
A III 1a.
49.6 x 50.9 cm (platemark)
IL TERREMOTO E LA MORTE DI S. STEFANO
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (after 1876)
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
Bibliographic reference(s)
pp.130-31, no.III.1 (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.488, no.H 5.1 (Höper 2001 : Höper, C. Raffael und die Folgen, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001)