The Raphael Rooms and Pinacoteca

Raphael, Coronation of the Virgin, 1502 - 1503 Vatican Museum Raphael, The Madonna of Foligno, 1511 - 1512 Vatican Museum Raphael, The Transfiguration, 1520, unfinished Vatican Museum. This probably inspired Michelangelo's The Last Judgment on Sistine Chapel Altar Wall Leonardo da Vinci, St. Jerome, 1482, unfinished Vatican Museum ... The Raphael Rooms in the Vatican Museum are a series of four rooms which originally comprised the apartment of Pope Julius II at the beginning of the 16th century.  The decoration of these rooms was created by Raphael and his school between 1508 and 1524. Room 1:  Stanza d'Eliodoro Raphael, The Mass of Bolsena Stanza d'Eliodoro, ca 1512 Raphael, Mass of the Bolsena, detail It is believed the guard looking toward viewer is self-portrait Of course, everyone else in the room is looking up, while I am looking at the floor. Raphael, The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple Stanza d'Eliodoro, 1512 - 1514 Room 2:  Stanza della Segnatura Raphael, The School of Athens Stanza della Segnatura, 1509 - 1511 Some of the figures thought to be portrayed:  Pythagoras, Alexander the Great, Socrates, Euclid, Archimedes, Strabo, Zoroaster, Ptolemy, and self portrait of Raphael (cut off here) This figure, possibly Heraclitus, is believed to be a portrait of Michelangelo, added later, after unveiling of 1st phase of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling Plato walking with Aristotle, Diogenes lounging on steps. Plato, (left) is believed to be portrait of Leonard da Vinci. Raphael, Justice Stanza della Segnatura, ca 1514 depicts Prudence, Temperance, Fortitude Room 3:  Stanza dell'Incendio Raphael, Fire in the Borgo Stanza dell'Incendio, 1514 All photos are copyright protected property of  Brenda Pokorny unless otherwise noted. If you would like permission for use, please contact me.