Raphael Rooms

The people of Raphael (Italian: Stanze di Raffaello, literally. "The rooms of Raphael"; from stanza - the room) - rooms with frescoes of Raphael in the Papal Palace of the Vatican. Four relatively small rooms (approximately 9 by 6 meters), painted in 1508-1517 by Raphael together with his students, and a room with paintings of students after the death of Raphael according to his sketches. Each stanza (room) has four fresco compositions, each entirely occupying one wall. Murals are distinguished by the depth of design, imaginative saturation and compositional clarity.

The premises already existed under Pope Nicholas V (1447-1455). Pope Julius II chose them for his apartment, not wanting to live where the shadow of the hated Borgia still hovered, that is, in the apartments of Alexander VI. On the advice of Bramante, Julius II commissioned the very young Rafael (the artist was only twenty-five years old) to make the Stanzas painting.