Raphael and the Sistine Chapel Tapestries In 1515 Pope Leo X commissioned Raphael to design a series of tapestries illustrating episodes from the lives of Saints Peter and Paul for the Sistine Chapel. Intended for the lowest register of the walls, beneath frescoes by Perugino, Botticelli, Ghirlandaio and their contemporaries, the tapestries would complete aContinue reading “The Life of a Composition: Raphael’s Miraculous Draught of Fishes.”
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Andrea del Sarto and the French Court: Leonardo, Raphael and Visual Legacy
Before France Andrea del Sarto’s journey to France in 1518 has acquired a special place in accounts of his career. John Shearman treated that year as the beginning of Andrea’s ‘heroic period’, while Jan Sammer’s recent reconstruction of the painter’s movements has given the French episode a much firmer documentary basis than it previously possessed.Continue reading “Andrea del Sarto and the French Court: Leonardo, Raphael and Visual Legacy”
Polidoro da Caravaggio (c. 1499–1543): Studies for an Annunciation
Two small roundels, the Angelo annunciante and the Vergine annunciata, painted in Naples in 1527–28 and now in the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, are closely connected with a double-sided sheet of red-chalk studies of approximately the same date, now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Together, the drawings and paintings offer an unusually concentratedContinue reading “Polidoro da Caravaggio (c. 1499–1543): Studies for an Annunciation”
