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National Gallery of the Marche – Ducal Palace of Urbino verified

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Raffaello Sanzio - Portrait of a gentlewoman called la Muta
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Piero della Francesca - Flagellation
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Ideal city
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Piero della Francesca - Madonna of Senigallia
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Luca Signorelli - Crucifixion
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Pedro Berruguete - Portrait of Federico da Montefeltro and his son Guidobaldo
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Giovanni Bellini - Madonna and Child, St. John the Baptist and St. Anna
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Federico Barocci - Madonna of San Simone
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Giusto di Gand; Pedro Berruguete - Sant'Ambrogio
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Giusto di Gand; Pedro Berruguete - Bartolo from Sassoferrato
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Paolo Uccello - Miracle of the profaned Host
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Raffaello Sanzio; Jules Joseph Lefebvre - The miraculous catch
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Tiziano Vecellio, detto Tiziano - Resurrection
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Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini, detto Fra Carnevale - Alcove of the Duke
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Refreshment
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Giuliano da Maiano; Benedetto da Maiano - Federico's study
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Ambrogio Barocci; Francesco di Giorgio Martini - Device with winch
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Ambrogio Barocci; Francesco di Giorgio Martini - Five times
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Alvise Vivarini - Madonna and Child Enthroned and Saints known as the Montefiorentino Polyptych
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Guido Reni - David contemplates Goliath's taken off head
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Federico Barocci - St. Francis receives the stigmata
Raffaello Sanzio - Portrait of a gentlewoman called la Muta
Piero della Francesca - Flagellation
Ideal city
Piero della Francesca - Madonna of Senigallia
Luca Signorelli - Crucifixion
Pedro Berruguete - Portrait of Federico da Montefeltro and his son Guidobaldo
Giovanni Bellini - Madonna and Child, St. John the Baptist and St. Anna
Federico Barocci - Madonna of San Simone
Giusto di Gand; Pedro Berruguete - Sant'Ambrogio
Giusto di Gand; Pedro Berruguete - Bartolo from Sassoferrato
Paolo Uccello - Miracle of the profaned Host
Raffaello Sanzio; Jules Joseph Lefebvre - The miraculous catch
Tiziano Vecellio, detto Tiziano - Resurrection
Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini, detto Fra Carnevale - Alcove of the Duke
Refreshment
Giuliano da Maiano; Benedetto da Maiano - Federico's study
Ambrogio Barocci; Francesco di Giorgio Martini - Device with winch
Ambrogio Barocci; Francesco di Giorgio Martini - Five times
Alvise Vivarini - Madonna and Child Enthroned and Saints known as the Montefiorentino Polyptych
Guido Reni - David contemplates Goliath's taken off head
Federico Barocci - St. Francis receives the stigmata

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Description

The series of seven tapestries, depicting scenes from the Acts of the Apostles, comes from the Royal Palace in Milan. The precious fabrics arrived in Urbino in 1923 and since then have been on display in the Salone del Trono of the Palazzo Ducale. The cloths reproduce the cartoons that Raphael had made between 1515 and 1516 for the most famous tapestries in the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, now kept at the Albert and Victoria Museum in London. Of the seven tapestries, three are of English manufacture by Mortlake. In fact, around 1650, Cardinal Mazarin bought from the English duke Filippo Herbert of Pembroke the three English-made tapestries depicting the Healing of the cripple, the Sacrifice of Listri, and St. Paul preaching to the Athenians. He then completes the series with four other French-made Lefebvre tapestries, representing the scenes with the Miraculous Fishing, the Delivery of the Keys, the Death of Ananias, and the Blinding of the magician Elima. In the latter Mazarin has the same border as the English ones inserted with caryatids and festoons and on all seven he has his cardinal's coat of arms placed at the top center. In the tapestry depicting the Miraculous Fishing, the scene takes place outdoors and the grandiose landscape, which seems to continue that of the nearby Delivery of the Keys, recalls the engravings by Dürer. The scene depicts Christ's invitation to the brothers Peter and Andrew to become his apostles. As the Evangelist Luke recounts, Jesus advised the two brothers to lower their nets again despite the fact that they had not caught anything during the night. The tapestry therefore represents the moment when Christ has just performed the miracle and the two boats are filled with fish.

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