This is another one of the three large tapestries in Glencairn’s collection based on a set
This is another one of the three large tapestries in Glencairn’s collection based on a set of designs painted by Raphael, the famous Renaissance artist. (We posted a different one yesterday.) The scene represents the moment when the risen Christ appears to the Apostles for the third time and asks Simon Peter if he loves him (John 21:14-17). After each of the three positive replies, Christ charges Peter to tend and feed his lambs and sheep. Here, Christ stands and points to Peter with his right hand, and to the sheep behind him with his left hand. 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. This tapestry is 10 feet high by 17 feet wide. -- source link
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