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Disputation of the Eucharist, Raphael, 1511

Inspirational prints / Italian / Paintings (Reproductions) / Raphael / Renaissance - 1 year ago - troycapc

This was painted by Raphael between 1508 and 1511 and represents Christianity’s victory over, and the transformation of, the multiple philosophical tendencies shown in the School of Athens fresco on the opposite wall.  It is a Renaissance masterpiece.

Raphael was born in Urbino, to the north of Rome, where his father was count painter to the ruler.  Though orphaned at the age of eleven, he had probably helped in his father’s workshop.  Completing his training by 1501 when he was eighteen years old, Raphael was soon completing art for churches in Urbino and Perugia.  Within three years he was working in Florence, Sienna, Perugia, Urbino and appears to come under the influence of the work of Leonardo da Vinci.

By 1508 Raphael settled in Rome at the invitation of Pope Julius II and where he was disliked by Michelangelo, who probably viewed the younger man as a rival for Papal commissions.  Raphael began working on the Stanze which included the School of Athens, the Parnassus and the Disputation of the Eucharist.  Michelangelo ungraciously accused Raphael of plagiarism of his Sistine Chapel work, particularly after Raphael’s death.

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