Six Putti Dancing Around a Globe and a Palm from a set of the Giochi di Putti ca. 1635 Design attributed to Giovanni da Udine (Giovanni dei Ricamatori) Italian This tapestry was once part of an eight-piece set representing Giochi di Putti, or Cherubs Games. Pope Leo X commissioned the series as an allegorical celebration of the golden age under the Medici, and it was to be displayed in the Vaticans Hall of the Consistory. Probably conceived by Raphael, the tapestries designs were executed by his pupils, including Giovanni da Udine. Tommaso Vincidor painted their cartoons (the full-size models copied by the weavers) in Brussels.Unfortunately, Leos Brussels-woven, sixteenth-century tapestry set does not survive, but multiple copies were made, including these seventeenth-century tapestries attributed to Flemish weavers working in Rome in the newly established tapestry workshop funded by the Barberini family. Here, the weavers used hatching to skillfully depict the volume and rosy hues
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