STANZE OF RAPHAEL

Raphael designed the Stanze throughout all the Roman period, thus the Stanze allow us to trace the evolution of the language of Raphael, representing at the same time one of the vertices of the visual arts.

The chronology of the Stanze is as follows:

Stanza of the Segnatura (1508 – 1511) Vault  1508 Dispute at the Eucharist 1509 School of Athens 1509 - 1511 Parnassus 1510 - 1511 Virtue and Law 1511

Stanza of Heliodorus (1511 – 1514) Vault 1511 Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple 1511 - 1512 Mass of Bolsena 1512 Liberation of St. Peter 1513 - 1514 Meeting of Leo the Great and Attila 1514

Stanza of the Fire (1514 – 1517) Fire in the Borgo 1514 Battle of Ostia 1514 - 1515 Coronation of Charlemagne 1516 - 1517 Justification of Leo III 1517 The ceiling was decorated with frescoes by Perugino and his workshop earlier.

Hall of Constantine (1517 – 1524)

The frescoes were painted after Raphael's death (1520), according to the cartoons left by Raphael himself.
Vision of the Cross
Battle of Constantine against Maxentius
Baptism of Constantine
Donation of Rome
The ceiling was painted by Thomas Laureti from 1583.

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