Excerpt from The Frescoes of Raphael: Umbrian, Roman, Florentine Schools<br><br>In the year 1514, after the death of Bramante, the pope appointed Raphael chief architect of St. Peter's, at an annual salary of three hundred ducats, and in the following year named him inspector of antiquities, with power to pur chase any ancient marbles discovered in Rome or the vicinity that it might seem to him advisable that the city should possess. It was at about this time, too, in accordance with the wish of the pope, that Raphael executed his ten celebrated cartoons illustrating the acts of the Apostles Peter and Paul designs for tapestries intended to cover the lower half of the walls of the Sis tine Chapel in the Vatican. When completed these cartoons were sent to F landers, where the tapestries (still preserved in a room in the Vatican) were woven. Three of the.original cartoons are lost; the remaining seven are now in the South Kensington Museum, London.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.