Art for faith’s sake – Raphael’s cartoon

We are the stitches in the tapestry: together making up the scene that explains and justifies our faith.

‘The triumphant Jesus’: the tapestry from Raphael’s cartoon, woven in the Flemish workshop of Pieter van Aelst.
© MUSEI VATICANI

A tour of the Vatican Museums ends in front of a vast sixteenth-century tapestry that depicts the supreme moment of the Christian story.

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