Vatican City, Italy (Enclave of Rome): Vatican Museums: Raphael Rooms: Room of the Signature: Justice

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dc.contributor.authorSheppard, Beth M.
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-21T15:47:42Z
dc.date.available2024-10-21T15:47:42Z
dc.date.issuedMay 20, 2017
dc.descriptionMultiple photos are associated with this record. Please click the links to view all of the items in the series. The images are of signage and paintings (frescoes) within The Room of the Signature (Stanza della Segnatura), which is one of four Raphael Rooms that are part of the Vatican Museums. These are public museums that display about 20,000 of 70K works collected by the Catholic Church and the papacy throughout the centuries. The museums were founded by Pope Julius II in the early 16th century. Only the Louvre in France receives more annual visitors than the Vatican Museums. The museums consist of 24 galleries, with the Sistine Chapel being the last room visited. The Raphael Rooms (known in Italian as the Stanze), which precede the Sistine Chapel on a tour of the Vatican Museums, were the private chambers of several popes. The paintings in the Rooms, designed by the master but completed over 15 years (1508-1524) primarily by Raphael's pupils, depict historic events that are framed in exuberant High Renaissance style. The interior photo gives an overview of the ceiling, walls frescoes, and the size of the crowd in a portion of the Room of the Signature. This room was the first that Julius II had decorated for his study and private library and contain's Raphael's most famous frescoes, which mark the beginning of the Italian High Renaissance. The four pillars of Christian humanism: theology, philosophy, poetry, and justice, are represented in the room's four ceiling roundels as female personifications. The photo shows the roundel for Justice (wearing a purple gown). Below it is the corresponding fresco, "Cardinal and Theological Virtues and the Law." This lunette illustrates the cardinal virtues of fortitude, prudence, and temperance and the theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity. The frescoes below the lunette are the "Delivery of the Pandects to the Emperor Justinian" (on the left, painted by Lorenzo Lotto) and "Delivery of the Decretals to Pope Gregory IX" on the right, painted by Raphael. Although the subject is Pope Gregory IX, the fresco is a portrait of Pope Julius II, who commissioned the work. The pandects and decretals were two of the most important legal codes of the time.
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14312/2771
dc.languageN/A
dc.metadata.catalogerRogers, Shelley
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-SA 4.0
dc.rights.holderSheppard, Beth M.
dc.sponsorThis image was made available, in part, through a generous grant from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.
dc.subjectItaly
dc.subjectVatican City
dc.subjectRome
dc.subjectVatican Museums
dc.subjectMusei Vaticani
dc.subjectArt Museums
dc.subjectSacred Art
dc.subjectChurch Art
dc.subjectPaintings
dc.subjectFrescoes
dc.subjectRaphael
dc.subjectRaffaello Sanzio
dc.subjectRaphael and Workshop
dc.subjectRaphael Rooms
dc.subjectStanze
dc.subjectRoom of the Signature
dc.subjectStanza Della Segnatura
dc.subjectHigh Renaissance Art
dc.subjectItalian High Renaissance Art
dc.subjectPainted Ceilings
dc.subjectJustice in Art
dc.subjectTheological Virtues in Art
dc.subjectCardinal Virtues in Art
dc.subjectEmperor Justinian in Art
dc.subjectPope Julius II in Art
dc.subjectCardinal and Theological Virtues and the Law
dc.subjectDelivery of the Pandects to the Emperor Justinian
dc.subjectDelivery of the Decretals to Pope Gregory IX
dc.subjectLegal Codes in Art
dc.subjectPopes in Art
dc.titleVatican City, Italy (Enclave of Rome): Vatican Museums: Raphael Rooms: Room of the Signature: Justice
dc.typeImage

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