Renaissance tapestries were a symbol for wealth, rank and power for the purpose of the religious and political elite. Like the Acts of the Apostles tapestries, which were hung outdoors as a way to unite the people around their lord, which was Leo X. The thing about tapestries is that the weavers have the freedom to create the work of art and design them as they pleased but during the renaissance the painters got the license for easel painting. This denied the weavers interpretation and only to do as they were instructed. Making Renaissance tapestries work much different from the medieval tapestries and in the seventeenth century their work receded due to the fact that they just looked like imitation of paintings and other art work.

One of the famous renaissance tapestries is the Killing of the Wild Boar which was woven during the 1531 – 1533. This tapestry was from the works of Raphael in which there are three dogs. They are big and fierce attacking a wild boar and their master a swordsman on a horseback coming in for a kill. And the only thing that separates the swordsman and the boar is a ivy-covered oak tree. And for me the beauty of this wall hanging tapestry is that the surroundings like the squirrel eating an acorn, a crow and a woodpecker on the oak tree oblivious to the carnage that is happening below. Making the tapestries strict to the rules of the painter but still the illusion of unreality is there unnoticed and unhampered.