The Museum hosts ten Flemish tapestries. Nine of them have been woven in Brussels by Heinrich Mattens in 1620-1624 and result from the preparatory cartoons that Raffaello Sanzio prepared for ten tapestries, on behalf of Leone X Medici, which were supposed to adorn the walls of the Sistine Chapel. Each tapestry is signed by the letters: B for Brussels and HM for Heinrich Mattens. The scenes are taken from the Acts of the Apostles and from the Gospels, while the frames show the allegories of the cardinal and theological Virtues. The whole set was gifted in 1667 to the Holy House by the noble genoan Giovanni Battista of Niccolò Pallavicino, whose coat of arms is shown on the top of each tapestry. Since 1783 they have been placed in the Apostolic Palace. Stolen from the napoleonic army in 1797, they were rescued thanks to some Loreto citizens.
They are: Conversion of Saint Paul; The Consignment of the Keys; Death of Ananias ;Miraculous Catch of Fish ; Sermon of Saint Paul to the Athenians; Sacrifice of Lystra; Blinding of the Sorcerer Elymas; Conversion of the Centurion Cornelius.
