Arts Etcetera: THE SUNDAY PICTURE

From: The Independent - London | Date: October 20, 1996 | Copyright information

Strictly speaking, this week's picture shouldn't be appearing in our "free on a Sunday" slot - because it's hanging in the Victoria & Albert, and the museum has just brought in an admission fee. But Raphael's Paul Preaching at Athens is one of the masterpieces of the High Renaissance, and the V&A will let you in for nothing after 4pm. Along with six more Raphael cartoons (designs for tapestries commissioned by the Medici Pope Leo X for the Sistine Chapel), Paul returns to the Raphael Cartoon...

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