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 394 Painting original ten), which were designed by Raphael and exe- cuted by himself, assisted by pupils, and which are so well known to English students and visitors to the South Kensington Museum : they were originally designed for tapestries for the Sistine Chapel, by order of Leo X. (Fig. 138). The tapestries were woven, under the super- intendence of Michiel van Coxcien, at Arras, in Flanders,