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DAY 275 | A PICTURE’S WORTH 1000 200 WORDS |
Disputation of the Holy Sacrament
RAFFAELLO SANZIO, C. 1509-1510
After beginning his career in Umbria and Tuscany, the brilliant painter, sculptor, and architect Raffaello Sanzio—better known today as Raphael—moved to Rome at the age of 25. There he began the most celebrated period of his career. Not long after his arrival, he was invited by Pope Julius II to fresco the walls of a new library. The rooms that Raphael painted at the Vatican are now called the Stanze di Raffaello, or Raphael Rooms, and the first room that he completed contains three of his greatest masterpieces, The School of Athens, ...
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