Raphael Cartoons
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The Raphael Cartoons are seven large modello paintings on paper for tapestries, surviving from a set of ten cartoons, designed by the High Renaissance painter Raphael in 1515–1516. Commissioned by Pop
The Miraculous Draught of Fishes
St Paul Preaching in Athens
A rare display of the tapestries in the Sistine Chapel, 2011
Christ's Charge to Peter
Ananias and Sapphira
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Ananias and his wife Sapphira were, according to the biblical New Testament in Acts of the Apostles chapter 5, members of the early Christian church in Jerusalem. The account records their sudden deat
Raphael Cartoons
…The Healing of the Lame Man (Acts 3:1–8) The Death of Ananias (Acts 5:1–10) The Stoning of St Stephen (no cartoon) at which Paul (Saul) was present before his conversion…
The Death of Ananias, by Raphael, 1515, Raphael Cartoons
Ananias and Sapphira on the Brescia Casket, late 4th century (middle register, centre and right)
The Death of Sapphira, by Ambrosius Francken the Elder
Nicolas Poussin, Death of Sapphira, Louvre