Stanza Della Segnatura

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I remember going to Rome two years ago and my favorite place we visit was the Stanza Della Segnatura, I knew one day I would have the opportunity to know in depth about this precious Renaissance art work. Pope Julius II commissioned Raphael to redecorate the papal apartments as part of a program which aimed to reinforce the authority of the Church. Following the Renaissance common categories, the pope’s private library, Stanza Della Segnatura, is divided into four sections: Theology, Philosophy, Justice, and Poetry. Raphael’s frescoes portray the authors of the books in Julius II’s library relative to the four sections. The vault is also divided into these same four categories, each corresponding to the fresco immediately below. The unified …show more content…
The figures are generally agreed to be: St. Peter, Adam, St. John the Evangelist, David, St. Stephen, and Jeremiah. On Christ’s left, there are St. Paul, Abraham, St. James, Matthew, Moses, St. Lawrence, and Judas Maccabaeus. The lower level contains figures such as St. Gregory the Great, wearing a papal tiara; he is well known for having written a life of St. Benedict. Next to him, moving left, is St. Jerome, was the translator of the Hebrew Scriptures into Latin, accompanied by a group of unknown characters. The figure on the far left margin is thought to be Fra Angelico. On the other side of the altar, a man points towards heaven as he turns to a seated figure, generally agreed to be St. Ambrose. Next to him, St. Augustine is the last of the four doctors of the Latin Church to appear in the fresco, along with Ambrose, Gregory and Jerome. St. Thomas Aquinas, Pope Sixtus IV and Dante can also be identified.

Assuming that Stanza Della Segnatura was planned as a private library, one wonders whether this meditation on the nature of individual study could be Raphael’s subtle way of disagreeing with papal

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