Abstract: Between approximately 1509 and 1511, as Michelangelo completed the Sistine ceiling nearby, Raphael set to work on his first major commission in Rome, a set of frescoes for the Stanza della Segnatura at the Vatican. On one wall of the room he painted the fresco that would become famous as The School of Athens (Figure 1.1); on the facing wall a theological subject that has come to be called the Disputation of the Sacrament (Figure 1.2); and on a third, a vision of poetry, Parnassus (Figure 1.3), presided over by Apollo and the Muses and inhabited by the great poets of antiquity and the modern era. Raphael's program presents a beautifully realized illustration of the various realms of achievement — divine, intellectual, and creative — given weight not only by the painter's mastery of technique and originality of conception, but also by the location of his works in the heart of Christendom.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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