Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART: Meeting of Leo the Great and Attila
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Meeting of Leo the Great and Attila
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Alternate Title:
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Stanza di Eliodoro; Meeting of Leo the Great and Attila
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Image View:
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Detail, Rome and Mount Mario, on which a fire is blazing
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Creator:
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Raphael (Italian painter, 1483-1520)
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Location:
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repository: Vatican Palace (Rome (Vatican City), Santa Sede (Holy See), Italy)
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Location Note:
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Apostolic Palace; Stanza di Eliodoro (Heliodorus)
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GPS:
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+41.903611+12.456389
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Date:
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1514 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Renaissance; Sixteenth century
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Work Type 1:
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fresco (painting)
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Classification:
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Paintings
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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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750 cm (width, at base)
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Subjects:
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cycles or series; historical; rulers and leaders; saints; Attila, -453; Julius II, Pope, 1443-1513; Leo I, Pope, -461; Leo X, Pope, 1475-1521; Heliodorus; Saint Leo the Great
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Description:
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The four Stanze of Raphael form a suite of reception rooms, the public part of the papal apartments in the Palace of the Vatican. Stanza di Eliodoro was probably a private audience chamber. Accordingly, the frescoes were meant to illustrate the power of the Church. In 452 Pope Leo I managed to halt Attila the Hun, on his way to invade Rome, at the river Mincio near Mantua. The original commission was from Pope Julius II, but he died in 1513, succeeded by Leo X. The episode of Leo I halting the Huns, attractive to Julius, who was determined to expel the French from Italy, was of no less significance for his far less belligerent successor Leo X. Raphael adapted the composition, making the first Leo a portrait of the tenth. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-RS-VM-ELGA-A10
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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