Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Stanza della Segnatura: Disputa
Alternate Title:
Disputation of the Most Holy Sacrament
Image View:
Detail, God the Father with rays painted with cherubim
Creator:
Raphael (Italian painter, 1483-1520)
Location:
repository: Musei Vaticani (Rome (Vatican City), Santa Sede (Holy See), Italy)
Location Note:
Vatican Apartments, Stanza della Segnatura
GPS:
41.906389 12.454444
Date:
ca. 1508-1509 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Renaissance
Work Type 1:
fresco (painting)
Classification:
painting
Material:
pigment on plaster
Technique:
fresco painting (technique)
Measurements:
770 cm (width, at base)
Description:
Raphael’s first commission at the Vatican was to decorate the Stanza della Segnatura, a room that was almost certainly designed as the library (study) of Pope Julius. He painted first the Disputa (disputation), a composition on three tiers representing the Church, on earth and in heaven, with the Trinity above an altar displaying the Eucharist. In the golden vault is God the Father, on the middle tier is Christ enthroned, flanked by the Virgin and St John the Baptist, with a hemicircle of seated prophets and martyrs ranged on a cloud bank. Below, surrounding the altar, are groups of disputants (really adherents), including the Fathers of the Church. The fresco can be seen as a portrayal of the Church Militant below, and the Church Triumphant above. In the program for the whole room, this panel represents Theology. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-RS-VM-DHS-B02
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Stanza della Segnatura: Disputa