1512, Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino) and workshop, Portrait of Pope Julius II -- Stadel Museum (Frankfurt)
From the museum label: A "papa terribile", inspiring awe and even fear - that is how contemporaries described Giuliano della Rovere, who reigned from 1503 to 1513 under the name of Pope Julius II. As the patron of Bramante, Michelangelo and Raphael, he exerted a decisive influence on Italian Renaissance art, Raphael's portrait of him exists in several versions. This one, acquired by the Städel, is fascinating by virtue of its quality as well as the extremely complex history of its execution, which assigns it a key role in the development of the pictorial concept.
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1512, Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino) and workshop, Portrait of Pope Julius II -- Stadel Museum (Frankfurt)
From the museum label: A "papa terribile", inspiring awe and even fear - that is how contemporaries described Giuliano della Rovere, who reigned from 1503 to 1513 under the name of Pope Julius II. As the patron of Bramante, Michelangelo and Raphael, he exerted a decisive influence on Italian Renaissance art, Raphael's portrait of him exists in several versions. This one, acquired by the Städel, is fascinating by virtue of its quality as well as the extremely complex history of its execution, which assigns it a key role in the development of the pictorial concept.
Link to other Raphael paintings