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Raphael cartoons and tapestries for the Sistine Chapel

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Author(s)	Clare Browne, Mark Evans
Editor	V & A Publishing	Place	Londra
Year	2011	Pages	120
Measure	25X22 (cm)	Illustration	ill. a colori e b/n n.t.
Binding	cart. edit. sovracc. ill.	Conservazione
Language		Weight	1100 (gr)
ISBN	1851776346	EAN-13	9781851776344

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The Italian Renaissance master Raphael designed a sublime set of 10 tapestries for the Sistine Chapel in 1515. These remarkable works are comparable with Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel Ceiling as masterpieces of High Renaissance art. The full-size designs Raphael made for the tapestries--known as the Raphael Cartoons--have been on display in the V&A since 1865. This book accompanies an exhibition of the four remaining actual tapestries and the Cartoons. It introduces and contextualizes them, looks at how and why they were made, and discusses each subject individually in terms of sources and composition. Accessible and beautiful, it is essential reading for all Raphael and Renaissance enthusiasts.