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Raphael: cartoons and tapestries for the Sistine Chapel

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Raphael of Urbino (1483-1520) -- Leo X (1475-1521) -- Leo X and music -- The commission and the cartoons -- The Sistine Chapel -- The Sistine Chapel tapestries and their setting -- Weaving the Sistine Chapel tapestries -- The popes and their tapestries : the history of the papal collection -- The influence of the cartoons on sixteenth-century tapestry design -- The impact of the cartoons -- The cartoons at the Mortlake tapestry manufactory -- The "afterlife" of the cartoons, 1600-1865 -- Notes -- Catalogue. The story of St Peter (the Peterine cycle) ; The miraculous draught of fishes ; Christ's charge to Peter ; The healing of the lame man ; The death of Ananias ; The story of St Paul (the Pauline cycle) ; The stoning of Stephen ; The conversion of Saul ; The conversion of the proconsul ; The sacrifice of Lystra ; Paul in prison ; Paul preaching at Athens ; Detached border with the four seasons ; Detached border with the hours.

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    London: V&A Publishing, 2010

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    • 9781851776344
    • 1851776346

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    Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Sept. 8-Oct. 24, 2010, displaying four of the ten tapestries designed by Raphael for the Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, alongside Raphael's full-scale designs for them.

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