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The Warrior Pope: Raphael’s ‘Pope Julius II’. View time: 23:09. Matthias Wivel, our Curator of 16th-century Italian paintings, gives a talk about the portrait of Julius II by Raphael. Julius II belonged to the della Rovere family. He was a forceful ruler, who reasserted his power over the Papal States by military...
Location. National Gallery, London, Uffizi and other versions. Portrait of Pope Julius II is an oil painting of 1511–1512 by the Italian High Renaissance painter Raphael. The portrait of Pope Julius II was unusual for its time and would carry a long influence on papal portraiture. From early in its life, it was specially hung at the pillars ...
- 108 cm × 80.7 cm (43 in × 31.8 in)
- Raphael
- 1511–1512
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Oct 14, 2023 · The portrait of Pope Julius II by Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, better known as Raphael, dates between June 1511 and March 1512. Commissioned by Julius II, Raphael's oil painting would become one of inspiration and admiration - influencing the future of papal portraiture. Prior to Raphael's portrait of Pope Julius II, the sitter would normally be ...
Art patronage of Julius II. Raphael 's, School of Athens (1509–1511), a fresco in the Raphael Rooms of the Apostolic Palace, Vatican. Pope Julius II (reigned 1503–1513), commissioned a series of highly influential art and architecture projects in the Vatican. The painting of the Sistine Chapel ceiling by Michelangelo and of various rooms by ...
Apr 18, 2024 · School of Athens, fresco (1508–11) painted by artist Raphael, in the Stanza della Segnatura, a room in Pope Julius II ’s private apartments in the Vatican. It is perhaps the most famous of all of Raphael’s paintings and one of the most significant artworks of the Renaissance. Raphael was called to Rome toward the end of 1508 by Julius II ...
The School of Athens is a fresco for Pope Julius II’s Apostolic Palace rooms depicting great minds of Ancient Greece’s classical period such as Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, Socrates, Euclide and more, which triumphantly signaled the connections between contemporary artists (i.e. Bramante, Michelangelo, Da Vinci, and, of course, Raphael).
