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TitleThe Fire in the Borgo

Creator nameRaphael

Creator nationality/cultureItalian

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1514–1517

Object typePainting

MaterialsFresco

DimensionsUnknown

LocationStanza dell'Incendio, Vatican Palace, Vatican City

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Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsFires in artBasilicas--ItalyStanze di Raffaello (Vatican Palace, Vatican City)Mural painting and decoration, Renaissance--Vatican City

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XVIII. Raphael

John Onians

Description: Bearers of Meaning: The Classical Orders in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the...

Bearers of Meaning: The Classical Orders in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance

~WHEN BRAMANTE died in 1514 it was Raphael who succeeded him as architect in charge of the work at St Peter’s, and from that time the young painter became one of the most important architects in Rome. He must have already developed a close contact with...

Author

John Onians

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.247-262

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00026.022

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Chapter subject tags:Raphael, 1483-1520Stanze di Raffaello (Vatican Palace, Vatican City)Architecture--OrdersArchitecture, Renaissance--ItalyArchitecture--PhilosophyStanza della Segnatura (Vatican Palace, Vatican City)Stanza di Eliodoro (Vatican Palace, Vatican City)Stanza dell'Incendio (Vatican Palace, Vatican City)Rome (Italy)--History

8. Twin Towers

Sarah McPhee

Bernini and the Bell Towers: Architecture and Politics at the Vatican

~BERNINI’S BELL tower lay dismembered on the roof of St. Peter’s until 1653, when Innocent X gave the order to sell off the parts.See Doc. 39. In the decades that followed, documents record the sale and transportation of the materials. Fragments of Bernini’s...

Author

Sarah McPhee

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.190-212

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00028.012

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Chapter subject tags:Bell towers--ItalyCoronationsChurch architecture--ItalyPapacy--HistoryArchitecture, Baroque--Italian influences

2. What the Apostles Taught: Domenico Beccafumi’s Chiaroscuro Woodblock Prints

Evelyn Lincoln

The Invention of the Italian Renaissance Printmaker

~~In 1593 Andrea Andreani, an itinerant woodblock cutter in Siena, packed up shop and returned to his native Mantua to begin work on a print commission from Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga. The task was...

Author

Evelyn Lincoln

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.45-110

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00148.005

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Chapter subject tags:Christian art and symbolism--Renaissance, 1450-1600Prints, Renaissance--ItalyBeccafumi, Domenico, 1486-1551Wood-engraving, Renaissance

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