Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Disputa, Raphael



Title: Disputa
Artist: Raphael
Location Stanza Della Segnatura, Vatican Palace, Rome
Date: 1508 - 11

  • Fresco depicting religion
  • Shows theologians debating "true presence" in Eucharist
  • painted just before the reformation - special significance
  • Representatives of the 4 doctors of the church are present - (Sts Gregory, Jerome, Ambrose and Augustin) around actual altar
  • Important saints and biblical figures on top
  • Raphael repeats architectural motifs
    - circular cloud structure
  • colored motif, round mandolla, circular wafer, halo around dove (holy spirit)
  • Pope Sixtus IV
  • Julius II is inscribed in altar frontal
  • Saintly figure - St. Peter - papal offices
  • No actual architecture only clouds -
  • - church is above the individuals who make it up
  • - pope is christ's ruler on earth
  • -church is not physical

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