Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART: Stanza della Segnatura: Disputa
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Stanza della Segnatura: Disputa
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Alternate Title:
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Disputation of the Most Holy Sacrament
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Image View:
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Detail, the hemicircle of prophets, martyrs, saints seated on a cloud bank full of cherubim
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Creator:
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Raphael (Italian painter, 1483-1520)
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Location:
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repository: Musei Vaticani (Rome (Vatican City), Santa Sede (Holy See), Italy)
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Location Note:
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Vatican Apartments, Stanza della Segnatura
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GPS:
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+41.906389+12.454444
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Date:
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ca. 1508-1509 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Renaissance
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Work Type 1:
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fresco (painting)
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Classification:
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painting
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Material:
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pigment on plaster
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Technique:
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fresco painting (technique)
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Measurements:
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770 cm (width, at base)
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Description:
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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.oxfordartonline.com/)
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Collection:
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Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-RS-VM-DHS-E04
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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