Raphael's Acts of the Apostles Tapestries for Leo X: Sight, Sound, and Space in the Sistine Chapel
Lisa Pon
The Sistine Chapel in the Vatican was intended site for tapestries depicting lives of Saints Peter and Paul that were commissioned 1515 by Leo X, designed Raphael Rome, woven Brussels workshop Pieter van Aelst. contribution these made to papal majesty has long been acknowledged, various schemes their hanging within chapel have proposed. Their effect not only on preexisting paintings but also spoken sung rituals took place is significant as well.
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