Apostle paul preaching in town square cartoon

The audience is the 'Aeropagus' or city council, who display a range of attitudes, from surprise, to deep thought and scepticism. The corresponding tapestry was delivered later than most of the other tapestries and so was not displayed in the Sistine Chapel on St Stephen day, 26 December, It's likely Raphael did not see its installation no later that December as he died on 6 April, Click on points of interest to discover more about the painting's characters, symbolism and Raphael's masterly technique.

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St Paul's First Missionary Journey. To licence this image for commercial purposes, contact our Picture Library at picturelibrary royalacademy. On free display in Collection Gallery. Paul stands preaching in Athens in the area where the ruling council met. He spoke against worshiping false idols represented here by the classical statue of a Greek hero, probably Achilles.

The painting includes an imagined classical architectural setting with a small round temple in the background. This painted copy was made by Thornhill between and from an original cartoon preparatory drawing by Raphael of Paul preaching in the Areopagus. It is one of seven full size copies of the Raphael Cartoons which were presented to the Royal Academy in by the 5th Duke of Bedford for use of students in the RA Schools.

In Charles, Prince of Wales, who became Charles I inpurchased seven of the ten original cartoons. They were put to the same use and new sets of tapestries were woven at the Mortlake factory. In the status of the Cartoons significantly changed when William II had the strips pieced back together by Parry Walton. They were glued onto large sheets and then stretched and hung from about as autonomous works at Hampton Court in a gallery designed specifically for them by Sir Christopher Wren.

From that time the prestige of the cartoons began to surpass that of the tapestries.

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For English painters they became the principal models of the classical style. They were the only monumental works by Raphael to be seen outside of Rome in the first half of the 18th century and they were often engraved or copied. Tapestry cartoon. Bodycolour glue tempera on paper mounted on canvas in the late 17th century. Cartoon for a tapestry.

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