RAPHAEL'S

CARTOONS

CONDESSA DE MELO
RAPHAEL'S
CARTOONS

CONDESSA DE MELO
 SUMMARY

1. The miraculous draugh of fishes .................8

2. St. Paul Preaching in Athens .........................9
3. Handing-over the keys .................................10
4. The Death of Ananias ....................................11
5. Healing of the Lame Man..............................12
6. The conversion of the proconsul..................13
7. The sacrifice at Lystra....................................14
 INTRODUCTION
The Raphael Cartoons are seven large cartoons for
tapestries, belonging to the British Royal Collection
but since 1865 on loan to the Victoria and Albert
Museum in London, designed by the High
Renaissance painter Raphael in 1515–16 and
showing scenes from the Gospels and Acts of the
Apostles.

They are the only surviving members of a set of ten

cartoons commissioned by Pope Leo X for
tapestries for the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican
Palace, which are still (on special occasions) hung
below Michelangelo's famous ceiling. Reproduced
in the form of prints, they rivalled Michelangelo's
ceiling as the most famous and influential designs
of the Renaissance, and were well known to all
artists of the Renaissance and Baroque.

Admiration of them reached its highest pitch in the

18th and 19th centuries; they were described as
"the Parthenon sculptures of modern art.''
 INTRODUCTION
The Raphael Cartoons represent scenes from the
lives of Saints Peter and Paul. The programme
emphasised a number of points relevant to
contemporary controversies in the period just
before the Protestant Reformation, but especially
the entrusting of the Church to Saint Peter, the
founder of the papacy.

There were relatively few precedents for these

subjects, so Raphael was less constrained by
traditional iconographic expectations than he
would have been with a series on the life of Christ
or Mary. He no doubt received some advice or
instructions in choosing the scenes to depict.

The scenes from the Life of Peter were designed

to hang below the frescoes of the Life of Christ by
Perugino and others in the middle register of the
Chapel; opposite them, the Life of Saint Paul was
to hang below the Life of Moses in fresco.
 INTRODUCTION
An intervening small frieze showed subjects from
the life of Leo, also designed to complement the
other series. Each sequence begins at the altar
wall, with the Life of Peter on the right side of the
Chapel and Life of Paul on the left.

Including the three subjects with no surviving

cartoons, the set contains (the full scriptural
quotations and a commentary are on the V&A
website).
ARAZZI DI RAFFAELLO, CARTONE 01

Artist: Raphael
Title: The Miraculous Draught of Fishes
Date: 1515
Genre: Religious Arts
Dimensions: Height: 360 cm (11.8 ft)
Width: 400 cm (13.1 ft)

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ARAZZI DI RAFFAELLO, CARTONE 02

Artist: Raphael
Title: St Paul Preaching in Athens
Date: 1515
Genre: Religious Arts
Dimensions: Height: 390 cm (12.7 ft);
Width: 440 cm (14.4 ft)

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ARAZZI DI RAFFAELLO, CARTONE 03

Artist: Raphael
Title: Handing-over the Keys
Date: 1515
Genre: Religious Arts
Dimensions: Height: 345 cm (11.3 ft);
Width: 535 cm (17.5 ft)

10
 ARAZZI DI RAFFAELLO, CARTONE 04

Artist: Raphael
Title: The Death of Ananias
Date: 1515
Genre: Religious Arts
Dimensions: Height: 385 cm; Width: 440
cm 

11
ARAZZI DI RAFFAELLO, CARTONE 05

Artist: Raphael
Title: Healing of the Lame Man
Date: between 1515 and 1516
Genre: Religious Arts
Dimensions: Height: 385 cm; Width: 440
cm 

12
ARAZZI DI RAFFAELLO, CARTONE 06

Artist: Raphael
Title: St Paul before the Proconsul
Date: between 1515 and 1516
Genre: Religious Arts
Dimensions: Height: 385 cm (12.6 ft);
Width: 445 cm (14.5 ft)

13
ARAZZI DI RAFFAELLO, CARTONE 07

Artist: Raphael
Title: The Sacrifice at Lystra
Date: 1515
Genre: Religious Arts
Dimensions: Height: 350 cm (11.4 ft);
Width: 540 cm (17.7 ft)

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 Rafael Sanzio (em italiano: Raffaello
Sanzio; Urbino, 6 de abril de 1483 —
Roma, 6 de abril de 1520),
frequentemente referido apenas como
Rafael, foi um mestre da pintura e da
arquitetura da escola de Florença
durante o Renascimento italiano,
celebrado pela perfeição e suavidade
de suas obras.

D. Rafaela da Silva Melo, Condessa de

Melo is a 33, living in a small city with
your parents and dogs. She studied
education, music, arts, literature,
politic and economy. She is
academical and actually is working in
a new dictionary edition, royal
biographies, painters studies, and
she opened her own book company
and a foundation.