Raphael’s seven surviving tapestry cartoons for the Sistine Chapel were photographed for the first time in 1858. Lowered from a window of Hampton Court Palace, where they had been on and off display ...
When visitors return to the V&A, chances are they’ll be going to the handbag exhibition, or the one on Alice in Wonderland or Epic Iran. What may escape many of them is that right next to the Bags ...
But even Raphael never saw the tapestries and his full-scale designs for them together: until now, they have never occupied the same space. Commissioned by Pope Leo X in 1515 (an impressive, highly ...
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