Raphael Rooms
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suite of reception rooms in the Palace of the Vatican painted by Raphael and his workshop between 1509 and 1524
Key facts
- Artist
- Raphael
- Location
- Apostolic Palace , part of Vatican Museums , Rome
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- Image
- Raffael Stanza della Segnatura.jpg
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- inception
- 1508-00-00
- Commons category
- Raphael Rooms (Vatican Museums)
- native label
- Stanze di Raffaello
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The four Raphael Rooms (Italian: Stanze di Raffaello) form a suite of reception rooms in the Apostolic Palace, now part of the Vatican Museums, in Vatican City. They are famous for their frescoes, painted by Raphael and his workshop. Together with Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes, they are the grand fresco sequences that mark the High Renaissance in Rome.
The Stanze, as they are commonly called, were originally intended as a suite of apartments for Pope Julius II. He commissioned Raphael, then a relatively young artist from Urbino, and his studio in 1508 or 1509 to redecorate the existing interiors of the rooms entirely. It was possibly Julius' intent to outshine the apartments of his predecessor (and rival) Pope Alexander VI, as the Stanze are directly above Alexander's Borgia Apartment. They are on the second floor, overlooking the south side of the Belvedere Courtyard.