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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.”