My colleague Edward Pentin writes that the Vatican has formally announced that it is lending the Sistine Chapel Raphael tapestries to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London for a "once in a life-time" exhibition.
It will be a small but incredibly significant exhibition. For the first time since Raphael drew the colour cartoons, which belong to the V&A, and the tapestries were woven in the Low Countries, the two will hang together. This will be truly out of the ordinary and will run at the V&A from September 8 to October 14 in aid of the papal visit.
