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Raphael's Rooms

Raphael completed by Pope Julius II commissioned Stanza della Segnatura in the Apostolic Palace in Rome. The dominant themes of the room are the three highest principles of the human mind: the True, the Good and the Beautiful. These are shown in the four walls and the vault frescoes, those who have Disputa del Sacramento The School of Athens, the Cardinal and God's virtues and the law and the Parnassus to the image subject. The theological truth finds its expression in the oral defense of the Blessed Sacrament, which refers to the triumph of the Christian religion. In the School of Athens Raphael has the natural truth, the philosophical reason, painted in the form of ancient philosophers before a Renaissance architecture. The good shows Raphael in the cardinal and virtues of God and the law as allegories of the cardinal virtues of fortitude, prudence and temperance, and the Christian virtues of faith, hope and love, which were painted in the lunettes of the wall. In the Parnassus Apollo subordinate Muses and ancient and modern poets complement the spirit cosmos this space. The vault shows a summary in allegorical form the capabilities of the people to philosophy, theology, poetry and justice.

The Heller-Altar

Matthias Grünewald completes the begun by the workshop Albrecht Dürer Heller altarpiece, a triptych commissioned by the patrician Jacob Heller for the Dominican church in Frankfurt am Main. With the middle panel, inner wing and the left and right first outer wing Heller has entrusted the work in Nuremberg Dürer. Only four panels for the left and right second outer wing he left - although this should be carried out in the particularly difficult grisaille technique as well as the former - which probably Companies based in Aschaffenburg Grünewald. At its destination, the plant will ultimately composed.

Other works of the visual arts

• Workshop Giovanni Bellini: The Venetian Embassy in Damascus

• Quentin Massys completed The Lamentation of Christ (oil on wood) for the cathedral in Antwerp.
• Michael Heuffner creates the polyptych of the Hospital Church in yard. In the same year he dies age of 28 in Zwickau.
• Albrecht Dürer: Landauer Altar
• Albrecht Dürer made ​​several woodcuts for the Great Passion of the Nuremberg Benedictine monk Benedictus Chelidonius.

Architecture

• Baldassare Peruzzi completes the construction of the Villa Farnesina in Trastevere district of Rome.

Others

• The lay levels of Ulrich Tengler, one of the most important law books of modern times, appears in a revised form with six new woodcuts by Hans Schaufelin in Augsburg.

Born

Died

• Michael Heuffner, German sculptor and painter (* 1483 )