Disputation of the Holy Sacrament
Disputation of the Sacrament | |
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Artist | Raphael |
Year | 1509–1510 |
Type | Fresco |
Dimensions | 500 cm × 770 cm (200 in × 300 in) |
Location | Apostolic Palace, Vatican City[citation needed] |
The Disputation of the Sacrament (
Stanza della Segnatura, and was the private papal library where the supreme papal tribunal met.[2]
Description
In the painting, Raphael has created a scene spanning both heaven and earth. Above,
Holy Spirit in the typical form of a dove, to whose sides are books of the four Gospels held open by putti.[3]
Below, on an
Bramante, and the bearded figure on the right side wearing orange and blue robes is Aristotle.[6] The monk on the far left is Fra Angelico.[3] In the background on the left, a church is being constructed, representative of the Catholic Church.[7]
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See also
References
- ^ Raphael, Phaidon Publishers, 1948, p. 24.
- ^ Adams, Italian Renaissance Art, p. 344
- ^ a b "Disputation over the Most Holy Sacrament". Musei Vaticani. Archived from the original on 4 July 2022. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
- ^ Adams, Italian Renaissance Art, p. 345
- ^ Adams, Italian Renaissance Art, p. 346
- ^ Holgate, John Douglas, "Codes and Messages in Raphael's 'School of Athens.'" 2016. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/306398440_Codes_and_Messages_in_Raphael's_'School_of_Athens'
- ^ Massi, Ercole G. (1885). Compendious Description of the Galleries of Paintings in the Papal Palace of the Vatican. Rome. pp. 67–69.
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Sources
- Schneider Adams, Laurie (2001). Italian Renaissance Art. Boulder: Westview Press. pp. 344–346.
External links
- Media related to Raphael's Disputation of the Holy Sacrament at Wikimedia Commons
- The Vatican: Spirit and Art of Christian Rome, a book from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on this work