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The caryatids

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A caryatid is generally the sculpture of a woman functioning as a pillar - but in this case the women have lost this function and are purely ornamental: they are painted, this is a trompe-l'œil.

 

View from the Stanza di Eliodoro (Room of Heliodorus) - one of four reception rooms decorated by Raphael and his workshop, known as Stanze di Raffaello, for pope Julius II (and after his death pope Leo X). This room was painted 1511-1514 and probably had the function of an audience room.

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Uploaded on July 16, 2014
Taken on July 20, 2012