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