Christ Making Peter Head of the Church

The composition of this engraving is taken from Raphael’s series of tapestries commissioned by Pope Leo X for the Sistine Chapel. The artist may have copied her print directly from Raphael’s sketches, from the life-size preparatory cartoon, or more likely from the tapestry copies that the Gonzaga family commissioned from the same Brussels workshop where the original Sistine Chapel tapestries were woven.

The engraving, produced in the style of Marcantonio Raimondi, is signed lower left: DIANA.