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Detail from the miraculous Draft of Fishes, showing Christ and the disciples in a fishing boat
The Raphael Cartoons

The cartoons were models for the creation of a set of tapestries

RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)

Christ's Charge to Peter

c.1515-6

RCIN 912945

A cartoon for the tapestry of Christ's Charge to Peter for the Sistine Chapel.

Christ is standing on the left, pointing behind himself to a flock of sheep and in front to the keys held by Peter, who is kneeling. The other disciples stand in a group at the centre and on the right. The scene is set in a landscape.


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