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Raphael, Portrait of Pope Julius II, 1511, oil on poplar, 108.7 x 81 cm (National Gallery, London) Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker. The portrait shows Giuliano della Rovere, Pope Julius II, elected in 1503 after one of the shortest conclaves ever (he bribed everyone). We created Smarthistory to provide students around the world with the highest-quality educational resources for art and cultural heritage—for free. He was a lover of war, who led his own armies; and a lover of art, commissioning some of the greatest works in western history: Raphael's decorated rooms in the Vatican and Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling. The intimacy of the image indicates that Raphael has progressed from the narrative compositions of the Vatican Stanze to the full dominance of individual subjectivity. Julius II is usually depicted with a beard, after his appearance in the celebrated portrait by Raphael, the artist whom he first met in 1509.
Portrait of Pope Julius II Raphael 1511 - 1512.

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In 1591 Cardinal Sfondorato sold it to Scipione Borghese. A choleric and active man, much criticised during his turbulent pontificate for personally leading his troops in strenuous military campaigns, he is represented as at once forceful - as in the left hand - aristocratic the right hand - and meditative. He was to die at 70 the following year. An interconnected world is not as recent as we think. www.visual-arts-cork.com/famous-paintings/baldassare-castiglione.htm The picture can be dated by Julius's beard, which he grew as a token of mortification at having lost the city of Bologna in 1511 and had shaved off by March 1512.

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Commissioned by Julius II, Raphael's oil painting would become one of inspiration and admiration - influencing the future of papal portraiture. School of Athens Self-Portrait Sistine Madonna The Bridgewater Madonna The Cardinal Virtues The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple The Meeting between Leo the Great and Attila The Mond Crucifixion The Parnassus The Prophet Isaiah The Sacrifice of Noah The Transfiguration The Triumph of Galatea The portrait of Pope Julius II by Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, better known as Raphael, dates between June 1511 and March 1512.

In 1591 Cardinal Sfondorato sold it to Scipione Borghese.

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The pattern of papal keys and tiaras just visible in the green curtain was originally painted gold to simulate embroidery, and the artist's change of mind, disclosed when the painting was scientifically assessed in 1969 prior to cleaning, is one of the main reasons for its acceptance as the original of several versions of the portrait. We make it easy to collect and publish everything about art, manage collections, and buy, sell and promote artworks.
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View in Augmented Reality. stanza - room). Here the simple but effective tonal contrast, first used in the Portrait of a Cardinal, reappears. Pope Julius II gave this painting to the church of Santa Maria del Popolo, where after his death it was displayed on important feast days. The Pope who had commissioned the pictorial cycles and the works that had so contributed to the artist's fame, is depicted - according to historical sources, in the master's hand - in a portrait "so animated and true to life that it was frightening to behold, as though it were actually alive" (Vasari). Portrait of Pope Innocent X is directly descended from Italianate models, although the finished product is pure Velázquez.Undoubted sources of inspiration for Velázquez's portrait include the following; Raphael: Raphael's Portrait of Pope Julius II is innovative in several ways. From early in its life, it was specially hung at the pillars of the church of Santa Maria del Popolo, on the main route from the north into Rome, on feast and high holy days. Städel Museum Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

It is to him that we owe the appearance of such masterpieces as St. Peter's Basilica, ceiling of the sistine chapelRaphael's frescoes inVatican stanzas (it.

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