Raphael: Cartoons and Tapestries for the Sistine Chapel Reviews
Raphael: Cartoons and Tapestries for the Sistine Chapel
The Italian Renaissance master Raphael designed a sublime set of 10 tapestries for the Sistine Chapel in 1515. These remarkable works are comparable with Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Ceiling as masterpieces of High Renaissance art. The full-size designs Raphael made for the tapestries–known as the Raphael Cartoons–have been on display in the V&A since 1865. This book accompanies an exhibition of the four remaining actual tapestries and the Cartoons. It introduces and contextualizes them, look
