Visitors to London’s Victoria and Albert Museum will soon be able to see seven of Raphael’s sublime cartoons, depicting the life of St. Paul and St. Peter, the fathers of the Christian church, in the museum’s newly refurbished Raphael Court. The refurbished gallery was due to open last year, to mark the 500th anniversary of Raphael’s death. Although still closed due to the pandemic, the museum has released some new digital content so that the cartoons, full-size preparatory drawings, can be enjoyed before the museum’s reopening, which is yet to be announced. The seven cartoons are all that remains of the 10 “Acts of the Apostles” pictures that, in 1513, Pope Leo X commissioned Raphael to design for a series of Sistine Chapel tapestries. These tapestries were intended to be hung in the chapel on feast days. Raphael and his studio painted the 10 full-scale cartoons, around 16.4 feet by 11.5 feet, in thick gouache …