Raphael
One of his most important papal commissions was the Raphael Cartoons (now in the Victoria and Albert Museum), a series of 10 cartoons, of which seven survive, for tapestries with scenes of the lives of Saint Paul and Saint Peter, for the Sistine Chapel. The cartoons were sent to Brussels to be woven in the workshop of Pier van Aelst. It is possible that Raphael saw the finished series before his death—they were probably completed in 1520. He also designed and painted the "Loggie" at the Vatican, a long thin gallery then open to a courtyard on one side, decorated with Roman-style grottesche. He produced a number of significant altarpieces, including "The Ecstasy of St. Cecilia" and the "Sistine Madonna". His last work, on which he was working up to his death, was a large "Transfiguration", which together with "Il Spasimo" shows the direction his art was taking in his final years—more proto-Baroque than Mannerist.
Joseph Raphael (politician)
He was born in London to merchant Phillip Raphael and his wife Grace. He migrated to Sydney in 1839, working as a draper and acquiring his own general dealership by 1842. On 30 December 1840 he married Maria Moses, with whom he had five daughters. Active in the business community, he was a Sydney City Councillor from 1860 to 1866 and from 1870 to 1872. In 1872 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for West Sydney, but he was defeated in 1874. Raphael died in Sydney in 1879.