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the Temple; 4. Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.
13th Arcade. History of Jesus Christ. Four compositions: 1. Nativity; 2. Adoration of Magi; 3. Baptism of Christ; 4. Last Supper.
Engraved in whole or in part by S. Badalocchio; O. Borgiani; F. Villamena; Nic. Chaperon; A. Aveline; Montagnani; Volpato; Ottaviani; in chiaroscuro by Niccola Conzoni for Gruner.—Vasari, ed. Mil., iv. 362; v. 524; Passavant, ii. 166; Müntz, 429; Springer, 326; Perkins, 184; Gruyer, Loges de Raphael; Vaticano descritto, viii. Pl. 1-59; Lübke, 171; Gutbier, Pl. 36-52.
RAPHAEL'S CARTOONS, Raphael and
his assistants, S. Kensington Museum, London.
A series of designs, drawn with chalk
on paper and coloured in distemper (1515-16),
to be worked in tapestry for the decoration
of the Sistine Chapel, Rome; tapestries
made at Arras, in Flanders, under
direction of Bernhard van Orley and sent to
Rome in 1518. The tapestries were carried
off at the sack of Rome by the Constable de
Bourbon in 1527; restored by Constable
Anne de Montmorency to Julius III. in
1553; again carried off by the French in
1798 and sold in Genoa to a Jew, who is
said to have burned one to get the gold it
contained, and sold the others in 1808 to
Pius VII. They are now in the Hall of the
Arazzi in the Vatican; much faded. The
cartoons remained at Arras nearly a century,
when Charles I. purchased them, by
advice of Rubens, for use of his tapestry
weavers at Mortlake. Only seven of the
original eleven remained, and these had
been cut into strips about two feet wide.
On the death of Charles I., Cromwell bought
them for the nation for £300. They remained
neglected in a lumber room at
Whitehall until the reign of William III.,
who had them repaired and hung in a gallery
erected for them at Hampton Court by
Sir Christopher Wren. They are now exhibited
under glass at South Kensington Museum.
Cartoons: 1. Miraculous Draught of
Fishes, H. 10 ft. 6 in. × 13 ft. 6 in.; 2. Paul
preaching at Athens, H. 11 ft. 4 in. × 14 ft.
7 in.; 3. Elymas the Sorcerer struck with
Blindness, H. 11 ft. 4 in. × 14 ft. 7 in.; 4.
Paul and Barnabas at Lystra, H. 11 ft. 4 in.
× 18 ft.; 5. Healing of the Lame Man, H.
11 ft. 4 in. × 18 ft.; 6. Death of Ananias, H.
11 ft. 4 in. × 17 ft. 6 in.; 7. Christ's Charge
to Peter, H. 11 ft. 4 in. × 17 ft. 6 in. The
remaining three subjects in tapestry, of
which the designs are lost, are: Stoning of
St. Stephen, Conversion of St. Paul, and St.
Paul in Prison at Philippi. The 11th, of
which all trace is lost, was the Coronation
of the Virgin, for the altarpiece.—Passavant,
ii. 189, 225; Clément (Corkran), 278, 371;
Blackburn, Pictures at S. Kensington, 7;
Lübke, 188; Gutbier, Pl. 80-92.
RAPHAEL AND HIS FENCING-MASTER,
attributed to Raphael, Louvre; canvas,
H. 3 ft. 3 in. × 2 ft. 9 in. A powerful,
bearded man, standing behind a parapet,
with one hand on his sword-hilt, turns to
a younger man behind him and points to
some object without the picture. Younger
man supposed to represent Raphael himself.
Picture has been attributed both to Sebastian
del Piombo and to Pontormo. From
Collection of Francis I. Engraved by Ardouin;
N. Larmessin.—Passavant, i. 354;
Villot, Louvre; Musée français, i.; Cab.
Crozat, i. Pl. 9.
RAPHAEL AND THE FORNARINA,
Sir A. W. Calcott, Sir G. R. Philips, Bart.;
canvas. Figures life-size, full-length, seated.
Exhibited in 1837. Engraved by Lumb
Stocks.—Redgrave, Century, ii. 403; Art
Journal (1856), ii.
By J. A. D. Ingres, Baroness Nathaniel de Rothschild, Paris. Painted at Rome in 1813; replica (1840), M. Dauban, Paris. Engraved by Pradier; lithographed by Christophe. Original sketch acquired by Louvre in 1881.—Ch. Blanc, Life, 46.
RAPHAEL OF MESSINA. See Alibrando,
Girolamo.
RAPHAEL D'UN MILLION. See Madonna
of St. Anthony of Padua.