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Oil on wood. Dimensions. 108 cm × 80.7 cm (43 in × 31.8 in) 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.
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 Raphael in the Apostolic Palace are considered among the masterworks that mark the High Renaissance in Rome.
Julius was a great patron of the arts, commissioning Raphael to decorate the papal apartments in the Vatican and ordering the rebuilding of St Peter’s in Rome. The two golden acorns on the Pope’s chair allude to his family name, della Rovere ( is Italian for oak). The portrait was displayed on 12 December 1513, after Julius’s death, in ...
Aug 3, 2023 · Moses by Michelangelo, 1515, via Web Gallery of Art. The tomb monument for Pope Julius II della Rovere was one of the first commissions Michelangelo received from the Pope himself upon his arrival in Rome at the beginning of the sixteenth century. It was intended by the patron to be a free-standing, enormous, and auto-celebratory mausoleum.
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The four Raphael Rooms (Italian: Stanze di Raffaello) form a suite of reception rooms in the Apostolic Palace, now part of the Vatican Museums, in Vatican City. They are famous for their frescoes, painted by Raphael and his workshop. Together with Michelangelo 's Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes, they are the grand fresco sequences that mark the ...
Video transcript. Dr. Beth Harris: [0:04] Here we have “Julius II,” painted by Raphael. Julius II, the great patron of the High Renaissance, and it’s thanks to Julius that we have, oh gosh, so many things. The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, the Basilica of Saint Peter’s, Raphael’s frescoes in the Stanze.
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Oct 4, 2022 · This exciting masterpiece, painted by Raphael between 1511-1512, depicts Pope Julius II in a new way. Raphael breaks with all iconographic tradition and places the pope at the centre of the canvas not as an aseptic hieratic figure, but as a real man. Julius II appears with the insignia of his mission, as a spiritual leader but also as a ...
