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Raphael Cartoons are ready for their close-up on V&A website

The V&A s new digital interactive visualises the colour, 3D and infrared layers of The Death of Ananias, one of the museum s seven Raphael Cartoons (1515-16) © V&A Courtesy Royal Collection Trust HM Queen Elizabeth II 2021 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 for more than 150 years, the Raphael Cartoons (1515-16) were documented by daylight on glass plate negatives over several months. The delicate task was commissioned by Prince Albert, whose passions for Raphael and photography led him to amass a study collection of 5,000 reproductions of the master’s works.

V&A · The Raphael Cartoons: The Conversion Of The Proconsul

Share The Raphael Cartoons are considered one of the greatest treasures of the Renaissance. These huge, full-scale designs for tapestries were created by Raphael – one of the most important masters of the Renaissance period. Commissioned by Pope Leo X, shortly after his election in 1513, for the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican Palace, the Cartoons depict key episodes of the lives of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, the founding fathers of the Christian church. The Conversion of the Proconsul also known as The Blinding of Elymas (Acts 13: 6 – 12) Paul preaches to a Roman proconsul (regional governor) and converts him to Christianity by performing a miracle, described as the Blinding of Elymas .

Edward Colston Jury Trial Raphael Cartoons Edmund de Waal Mosul Gift

Edward Colston Four Opt For Trial By Jury The four people charged with criminal damage for pulling down a bronze statue of slave trader Edward Colston and dumping it in Bristol harbour have pleaded not guilty. Jake Skuse, 36, Rhiannon Graham, 29, Milo Ponsford, 25, and Sage Willoughby, 21, appeared at Bristol Magistrates’ Court earlier today to deny the charges. They have opted to be tried before a judge and jury. They were bailed and are due to appear at Bristol Crown Court on 8 February. Arrests were made outside the courtroom when protesters ignored warnings not to gather outside the court.  The offending bronze statue of slave merchant Edward Colston was pulled off its pedestal during a Black Lives Matter protest on 7 June. On Friday it was announced that two other statues of men involved in the slave trade would be removed from the Guildhall in London. The statues honoured former Lord Mayor of London William Beckford and 17th-century merchant Sir John Cass, who also had a

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