The Raphael Project includes a large digital project that led to photographing and filming the works in high definition
by Nicol Degli Innocenti
The Raphael Project includes a large digital project that led to photographing and filming the works in high definition
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Shortly after being elected Pope in 1513, Leo X asked Raphael to create a series of ten monumental tapestries for the Sistine Chapel illustrating episodes from the life of St. Peter and St. Paul.
The preparatory cartoons designed by Raphael, made in just 18 months by the artist and his collaborators, were then sent to Brussels where Pieter van Aelst, the supreme master weaver of the time, had then transformed them into tapestries. Three of the original cartoons have been lost, but seven were purchased by the then Prince of Wales, later King Charles I, brought to England in 1623 and kept for over a century and a half at Hampton Court Royal Palace.
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Victoria & Albert Museum
Considered to be one of the greatest Renaissance treasures in Britain, they are part of the Royal Collection. In 1865 Queen Victoria had given them on permanent loan to the Victoria & Albert Museum in memory of her husband Alberto, who had been a great collector and admirer of Raphael’s works.
Since then, the cartoons have been on display in one of the London museum’s grandest rooms, which is the same size as the Sistine Chapel.
To celebrate the 500th anniversary of Raphael’s death last year, the V&A commissioned the Raphael Project, which involved the restoration and transformation of the room that houses the artist’s Cartoons and a large digital project to photograph and film the works in high definition. , created by the Factum Foundation for Digital Technology in collaboration with Momart. (It was Factum who made the 3D facsimile of the cartoon The Sacrifice of Lystra for the great Raphael exhibition at the Scuderie del Quirinale last year).