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Pope Julius II

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Original – "Portrait of Pope Julius II" (1511–12); Raphael (1483 – 1520) had been commissioned by Pope Julius II (1443–1513) to paint four rooms—now called the Raphael Rooms—in the public part of the papal apartments in the Palace of the Vatican. While doing so Julius commissioned this additional portrait. It was groundbreaking at the time: previous papal portraits had shown the sitters frontally, or kneeling in profile. The National Gallery, who hold the original, note that "the format was to be exceedingly influential on subsequent papal portraiture", and for over 300 years, papal portraits emulated this work.

Reason

An excellent image of a seminal work by Raphael (1483–1520), one of the trinity of great masters of the Italian High Renaissance

Articles in which this image appears

Portrait of Pope Julius II (Raphael), Pope Julius II, Raphael + Many others

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Religious figures or Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings

Creator

Raphael

• Support as nominator – SchroCat (talk) 09:11, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
• Support Wow, that's a vibrant high quality image.♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:21, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
• Support -- Jobas (talk) 14:47, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
• Support --Ha, Julius. Great, Scro! ^{The pope who quarreled with Michelangelo and made him paint the Sistine Chapel...}Hafspajen (talk) 21:29, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
• Support  — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:32, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
• Support - as above. Mattximus (talk) 02:05, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

Promoted File:Pope Julius II.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 09:12, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

• Added image to the Artwork category, as there is an article about the painting. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 09:12, 21 February 2015 (UTC)