Now those who have never been to the Vatican can enjoy the works of the master in all details.
Copies of Raphael Santi’s sketches for the painting of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican have been published in London. The master’s works are kept in the Victoria and Albert Museum, and digital copies have appeared on his website. The sketches were made in the early sixteenth century by order of Pope Leo X. They captured scenes from the life of the apostles Peter and Paul. The head of the Holy See planned that tapestries would be woven on the basis of the sketches, which would decorate the chapel walls on special occasions. Only seven sketches out of the original ten have survived to this day.
The work has been examined using an infrared scanner, so the viewer can see what is under the top layers of paint and see the smallest details, Knife.media reports.
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