Stanza della segnatura raphael sanzio biography

Raphael, the young Italian artist, was commissioned by Pope Julius ll to decorate a suite of apartments in the Palace of the Vatican, Rome.

The frescoes of The Stanza della Segnatura, completed from 1508 – 1511, are perhaps, Raphael’s best-known work.

All the walls and the ceiling are decorated with frescoes painted by Raphael, for the most part, unaided by his numerous assistants and students.

One long wall displays Disputa (Disputation of the Holy Sacrament), which shows a Heavenly vision of God surrounded by His prophets and apostles above a congregation of past and present members of the Roman Catholic Church.

Towards the right, partially hidden behind a church dignitary in a golden robe, stands a man wearing a laurel-leaf crown.

He is the poet Dante whose famous poem Inferno reformed Italian literature and language.

The other long wall shows the School of A