Raphael Cartoons Digitised

January 27 2021

Image of Raphael Cartoons Digitised

Picture: V&A

Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:

The Victoria and Albert Museum in London have published high resolution images of the Royal Collection's Raphael Cartoons onto their website. During 2019 these enormous works on paper were scanned by the Factum Foundation. Both infrared, high resolution images and 3D scans were made. The new images has revealed several interesting insights into how Raphael's workshop operated and the pentimenti made during the initial stages of drawing.

Here's the full write up from The Art Newspaper.

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