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With regard to a painting or sculpture of your choice, discuss to what extent it is innovative or traditional in relation to other works of its time and/or type/genre. You ought to choose a work that you can examine first hand and need to provide illustrations of the works you discuss. Raphael's Cartoons The Raphael Cartoons are currently owned by Her Majesty the Queen and can be seen on display at the V&A Museum London. Originally they were a set of ten cartoons, but only seven have are on display. They were commissioned in 1515 by Pope Leo X (reigned 1513-21) and the job went to the great Italian Renaissance painter Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520). They were planned as full-scale designs for a set of ten tapestries that Leo X intended to cover the lower walls of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. The cartoons and tapestries depict the acts of St. Peter...

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