Perugino, Delivery of the Keys to St. Peter, 1481

Perugino, Marriage of the Virgin, 1500-1504. Oil on panel.

Raphael, Marriage of the Virgin, 1504. Oil on Panel.

Perugino, Lamentation, 1495. Oil on panel.

Raphael, Entombment, 1507. Oil on panel.

“It is well known that…Raphael greatly altered and improved his style, through having seen the works of the foremost masters, and he never reverted to his former manner, which looks like the work of a different and inferior hand.” (Vasari)

Ransoming of Hector’s Body, detail of a Roman sarcophagus, 190-200 C.E.

Perugino, Madonna and Child, 1500. Tempera on panel.

Raphael, Madonna of the Meadow, c. 1505. Oil on panel.

Raphael, Madonna of the Meadow, c. 1505. Oil on panel.

Leonardo Da Vinci, Virgin and Saint Anne with the Christ Child and the Young John the Baptist, ca. 1500. Charcoal heightened with white on brown paper.

Plans of the Vatican

Plan of the Papal Apartments in the Vatican Palace: (3): Stanza dell'Incendio; (4) Stanza dela Segnatura; (5) Stanza d'Eliodoro; (6) Sala di Costantino; Roman numerals indicate the bays of Raphael's Loggia 

Plan of the Papal Apartments in the Vatican Palace: (3): Stanza dell'Incendio; (4) Stanza dela Segnatura; (5) Stanza d'Eliodoro; (6) Sala di Costantino; Roman numerals indicate the bays of Raphael's Loggia 

Raphael, Stanza della Segnatura, ca. 1508-12, (fresco), Papal Apartments, Vatican

Raphael, Ceiling, 1508-1511, (fresco), Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican Palace.

The ceiling contains personifications of Poetry (above Parnassus), Theology (above the Disputa), Philosophy (above the School of Athens) and Jurisprudence (above the Justice wall) in the roundels.

The rectangular panels contain: The Fall of Adam and Eve, The Judgment of Solomon, Apollo and Marsyas, Urania and the Sphere of the Universe.

Raphael, Stanza della Segnatura, ca. 1508-12, (fresco), Papal Apartments, Vatican

Making a fresco:

Series of giornate (singular = giornata)

Raphael, composition sketch for the Disputa, ca. 1508, (pen and wash, 28 x 28.5 cm.), Royal Collection, Windsor Castle;

Raphael, The Disputa, ca. 1508-09, Stanza della Segnatura, Papal Apartments, Vatican

Raphael, Compositional drawings for the Disputa (top: Kunstinstitut Staedel, Frankfurt-am-Main; bottom: British Museum, London

Raphael, The Disputa, ca. 1508-09, Stanza della Segnatura, Papal Apartments, VaticanRaphael, The Disputa, ca. 1508-09, Stanza della Segnatura, Papal Apartments, Vatican

Raphael, Madonna della sedia, 1513-1514.

Raphael, Sistine Madonna, 1513-1514.

Duccio, Madonna and Child, ca. 1300. Tempera and gold on wood.