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Tapestries by Pieter Van Aelst

3/7/2019

 
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Christ's Charge to Peter, Tapestry by Pieter van Aelst, Vatican Museums, Rome
Christ's Charge to Peter (Tapestry), 466 x 634 cm.

The Pinacoteca (Picture Gallery) is home to ten large tapestries (1516-21), which were woven in Brussels in the workshop of Pieter van Aelst (c.1495-c.1560). The designs for the tapestries were provided by Raphael (1483-1520) and his assistants, who created a series of full scale cartoons (seven of which survive). 

The tapestries, which were commissioned in 1515 by Pope Leo X (r. 1513-21) and depict scenes from the lives of St Peter and St Paul, were made to be hung (albeit only on special occasions) in the Sistine Chapel. 

Miraculous Draught of the Fishes, tapestry by Pieter van Aelst, Vatican Museums, Rome
Miraculous Draught of the Fishes (Tapestry), 493 x 440 cm.
Miraculous Draught of the Fishes, cartoon by Raphael, V & A, London
Miraculous Draught of the Fishes (Cartoon), 319 x 399 cm.
Death of Ananias, tapestry by Pieter van Aelst, Vatican Museums, Rome
Death of Ananias (Tapestry)
Death of Ananias, cartoon by Raphael, V & A, London
Death of Ananias (Cartoon)
Conversion of Saul, Tapestry by Pieter van Aelst, Vatican Museums, Rome
Conversion of Saul (Tapestry)

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