Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART: Stanza della Segnatura: Ceiling
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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: Ceiling
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Image View:
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Tondo of Justice, with scales and sword, putti hold text of Emperor Justinian, "She gives Justice to all"
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Creator:
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Raphael (Italian painter, 1483-1520); Sodoma (Italian painter, 1477-1549)
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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. 1508-1511 (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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Work Type 2:
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tondo
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Classification:
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painting
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Material:
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pigment on plaster with gilding
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Technique:
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fresco painting (technique); gilding (technique)
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Measurements:
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180 cm (diameter, each tondo)
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Description:
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The ceiling design is attributed to Sodoma, but he painted only the central octagon and the small spaces between the tondi. Evidence of Raphael's numerous surviving drawings suggest that the program was not fixed, but evolved in response to the artist’s own ideas, the patron’s changing ambitions and the opportunities offered by the space. Raphael painted the personifications of Philosophy, Poetry, Theology, and Justice, as well as the four large panels in the corners, whose subjects refer to the two adjacent personifications (thus, for example, the Judgment of Solomon is placed between Justice and Philosophy). The architectural frames and their decorations are thought to be the work of a German painter, Jan Ruysch. The tondi repeat the themes of the entire room as a humanist quadripartition of culture; theology, philosophy, poetry and justice. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
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Image Description:
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The personification of Justice is holding, as her symbols, weighing scales and a sword. Her eyes are directed at the fresco below, The Virtues, in which Fortitude, Wisdom, and Temperance are portrayed in the form of three women. Taken together, all four personifications represent the Cardinal Virtues. Justice's prominent position is explained by the fact that Justice was said by Plato to play a decisive role among the virtues. Two putti are holding the inscription with the words of Emperor Justinian, "She gives Justice to all."
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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-SDSC-A12
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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