Renaissance cartoons and Turner's watercolours online – the week in art

The Serpentine and WeTransfer go immersive with a new online series, the Scottish National Gallery takes Turner digital and Jo Spence’s powerful photographs are part of a streaming tour – all in your weekly dispatch

The Raphael Cartoons
A cartoon in the Renaissance meant a full-size design and came from cartone, the largest size paper you could buy. Raphael’s huge coloured drawings for tapestries to hang in the Sistine Chapel have been in Britain since the 17th century and at the V&A since the 19th. Now you can explore them in intimate, unprecedented visual detail using images recorded by Factum Foundation.
Victoria and Albert Museum online.

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