A prince’s passion
COMMUTER-BELT Surrey might seem an unlikely place to find a direct link to one of art’s greatest painters, to the Medici Pope Leo X and to the fabled tapestries he commissioned for the Sistine Chapel. However, The Lightbox, Woking’s neat gallery and museum, is currently holding an ambitious small exhibition that brings the High Renaissance—and high Victorianism—to this unprepossessing dormitory town.
‘Raphael: Prince Albert’s Passion’ tells the story of the Prince Consort’s enthusiasm for the artist and how he created the Raphael Collection
