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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

Promoted File:Pope Julius II.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 09:12, 21 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]