Shop art print and framed art The Dispute by Raffaello
Subjects : Preparatory drawing & sketch, Religion
Keywords : Vatican, assembly, drawing, man, the Church
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The Dispute
Raphael's Dispute of the Blessed Sacrament, the second main fresco in the Signatura Room (along with The School of Athens), one of Raphael's four rooms in the Vatican Palace, was painted between 1509 and 1510.
It was Giorgio Vasari who gave this work its name, somewhat inappropriately, since while the lower register may depict a theological dispute, i.e. an intense discussion, the upper register functions more as a glorification of the triumphant celestial Church. Pietro Redondi, in Galileo the Heretic, states:
- Pietro Redondi, Galilée hérétique, Gallimard, 1985, pp. 231-2322.
According to Trent, however, it now appeared to be a work of combat marking the triumph of Catholic dogma against the heresy that had attacked the Real Presence.
After taking office, Pope Julius II quickly expressed his desire not to use the flats of his predecessor, Alexander VI Borgia, choosing other rooms on the upper floor. He called on a diverse group of artists to decorate them, adding Raphael in the last months of 1508. Impressed by the Urbino painter's first attempts, the Pope decided to entrust him with the entire decoration of the flats, destroying everything he had done before.
The Room of the Signature, between the future Room of Heliodorus and that of The Fire of Borgo, was the first to be decorated, with a theme linked to the ideal organisation of humanist culture, divided into Theology, Philosophy, Poetry and Theory of Law, to each of which a wall was dedicated. This layout suggests [...]
This artwork is a drawing from the renaissance period. It belongs to the italian renaissance style.
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