PINTURICCHIO, MICHELANGELO, RAPHAEL AND GIULIO ROMANO

After the death of Sixtus IV della Rovere ( 1484), with the support of Giuliano della Rovere, the future Pope Julius II, became Pope Innocent VIII. In the Vatican had commissioned the great Mantegna to paint a chapel which was demolished in the eighteenth century.

It was then the turn of Alexander VI Borgia, who reigned from 1492 to 1503. Pope Borgia, in the Apostolic Palace, entrusted Pinturicchio to fresco its spectacular apartments, which since some years are open to the public.

After twenty-six days papacy of Pius III, became Pope Giuliano della Rovere who took the name of Julius II.
Julius II ordered Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel (1508 -1512) and since he could not stand to live in the apartments of the hated Borgia entrusted to the hands of Raphael his “Rooms”.

Raphael went to work by the end of 1508 until his untimely death in 1520, when it was yet to be frescoed the Hall of Constantine, that was painted under the direction of the twenty one years old Giulio Romano, who had inherited the Raphael shop.

Pinturicchio click to enlarge	Michelangelo click to enlarge	Raphael click to enlarge	Giulio Romano click to enlarge

The next issue will open in the name of Agostino Chigi “the Magnificent”, with his protected: Baldassare Peruzzi, Giovanni Bazzi Sodoma and Sebastiano del Piombo. Finally we will show the works that in their short stays have left us: Piero della Francesca, Filippo Lippi, Giorgio Vasari and Palma il Giovane.

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