Last week we brought up to the Great Hall from our climate-controlled storage area several large and
Last week we brought up to the Great Hall from our climate-controlled storage area several large and important works of art to be photographed. (The floor of the Great Hall was the best place to photograph them from above.) The subject of the tapestry pictured here, which measures 10 feet high by 12 feet, 7 inches wide, is Saint Paul preaching to the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers of Athens on the subject of God and Christ (Act 17:22-23). This is one of three tapestries in Glencairn’s collection based on a set of designs made by Raphael, the famous Renaissance artist. Raphael created a set of ten paintings, or “cartoons,” used to make tapestries that hung on the lower portion of the walls of the Sistine Chapel. It is likely that the Glencairn tapestries, woven according to the same designs, were made in 1620 by a weaver named Heinrich Mattens in Brussels, Belgium. -- source link
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