Tapestries from the Vatican and cardboard Raphael in London
Exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum is dedicated to the visit to Britain by Pope Benedict XVI
In London, Victoria and Albert Museum is a unique exhibition : for the first time in a museum space near the Vatican are tapestries and cartoons to them by Rafael from the British Royal Collection.
These tapestries were made for the Sistine Chapel during the 1515-1519 period. First, Raphael and his assistants in Rome have created an almost five-meter cardboard, glue them in almost two hundred sheets of paper. In total, he made ten works on biblical subjects, of which on paper only seven survived. Cartons have been sent to Brussels, a workshop of Peter Van Aalst (Pietr Van Aelst), where the colors were adapted to the capabilities of the loom, and the cartoons were woven tapestries of silk, wool and gold threads. Tapestries returned to Rome in 1519, shortly before his death of Raphael, but the cartoons were in Belgium, and several monarchs produced with them their own tapestries. In 1623 the Prince of Wales Charles I bought Raphael cartoons for 300 pounds, and since they are owned by the Royal Family. In 1865, a long-term use of them took the Victoria and Albert Museum.
idea to combine in one exhibition tapestries and cartoons for them were offered to the Museum of Victoria and Albert Museums of the Vatican in February. The exhibition was decided in conjunction with the visit to Britain by Pope Benedict XVI. For the first time can be associated with cardboard and woven tapestries on them. In addition, the exhibition also displayed the preliminary sketches for the cartoons, by the Fund of the Royal Collection and the Louvre. You can visually examine all phases of the tapestry: from the first ideas and sketches to large-scale cardboard life-size, and the final product - the tapestry.
exhibition will run until October 17, 2010.
material was prepared by Maria Onuchina, AI
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