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Raphael in Rome
Alba Madonna (ca. 1510). Panel, transferred to canvas, tondo: diameter
95 cm. Washington, National Gallery of Art
Madonna della Sedia (ca. 1513-14). Panel, tondo: diameter 71 cm. Florence,
Galleria Pitti
Madonna di Foligno (Madonna and Child with SS. John the Baptist, Francis,
and Jerome, and the Donor Siaismondo de' Conti (1512). Panel, transferred
to canvas, 301 x 198 cm. Rome, Pinacoteca Vaticana
Sistine Madonna (Madonna and Child with SS. Sixtus and Barbara) (1512-13).
Canvas, 265 x 196 cm. Dresden, Gemaldegalerie Portrait of Pope Julius
II (ca. 1511-12). Panel, 108 x 80 cm. London, National Gallery
Portrait of Tommaso Inghirami (ca. 1513-14). Panel, 91 x 61 cm. Florence,
Galleria Pitti Portrait of Baldasar Castiglione (ca. 1514-15). Panel,
transferred to canvas, 82 x 66 cm. Paris, Musee du Louvre
The Vatican Stanze
Stanza della Segnatura (1508-11)
Ceiling (c. 1508-9, begun by Sodoma): Theology / Adam and Eve (Original
Sin) / Justice / Judgment of Solomon / Philosophy / The Universe (Urania)
/ Poetry / Apollo and Marsyas
Walls: Disputa (c. 1509-10), Parnassus (c. 1510-11), School of Athens
(c. 1510-11), Jurisprudence (Virtues of Justice: Fortitude, Prudence,
Temperence; Civil Law: Consigning of the Pandects to Justinian; Canon
Law: Approval of the Decretals by Pope Gregory IX) (c. 1511)
Stanza d'Eliodoro (1512-14)
Ceiling (1514): Appearance of God to Noah, Sacrifice of Isaac, Moses
and the Burning Bush, Jacob's Ladder Walls: Expulsion of Heliodorus
from the Temple (c. 1512), The Mass at Bolsena (c. 1512-13), Deliverance
of St. Peter from Prison (c. 1512), Repulse of Attila by Pope Leo 1
(c. 1513-14)
Stanza dell'Incendio (1514-17)
[Ceiling decorated by Perugino (1508)] Walls: The Fire in the Borgo
(c. 1514-15), Coronation of Charlemagne (c. 1516-17), The Battle of
Ostia (c. 1515), The Oath of Pope Leo 111 (1516-17)
Rome and the Papacy of Julius II
Raphael
Reading Assignments
Vasari, Lives of the Artists, vol. I: Life of Raphael (L)(R)
Wolfflin, Classic Art, chapter IV: Raphael (3. "The Camera della Segnatura,"
4. "The Camera d'Eliodoro," 5. "The Tapestry Cartoons," 6. "The Roman
Portraits," 7. "Roman Altar-Pieces") (L)(R)
Further Suggestions
David Rosand, "'Divinita di cosa dipinta': Pictorial Structure and the
Legibility of the Altarpiece," in The Altarpiece in the Renaissance,
ed. Peter Humfrey and Martin Kemp (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1990), pp. 143-164: some basic issues of structure and meaning, especially
in Raphael's Disuta (R)
Ingrid D. Rowland, "The Intellectual Background of the School of Athens:
Tracking Divine Wisdom in the Rome of Julius II," in Marcia Hall, ed.
Raphael's "School of Athens" (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University
Press, 1997, pp. 131-170: an excellent discussion of the humanist culture
of the papal court
John Shearman, "The Vatican Stanze: Functions and Decoration," in George
Holmes, ed., Art and Politics in Renaissance Italy (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1993), pp. 185-240: a good introduction to the subject
Carl Gustaf Stridbeck, Raphael Studies, I. A Puzzling Passage in Vasari's
"Vite" (Stockholm Studies in History of Art), (Stockholm: Almqvist &
Wiksell, 1960): an interesting reading of the structures of the School
of Athens within the context of Renaissance intellectual theory and
practice
Arnold Nesselrath, Raphael's School of Athens (Vatican City State, 1996):
presentation of the recent restoration of the fresco
Guido Cornini, et al., Raphael in the Apartments of Julius II and Leo
X (Milan: Electa, 1993): important studies with excellent illustrations
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