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The Donation of Constantine (painting)

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Year
  
1520–1524

Created
  
1520–1524

Type
  
Genre
  
History painting

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Part of series
  
Stanze di Raffaello Frescoes

Locations
  
Apostolic Palace, Raphael Rooms

Subject
  
Constantine the Great, Pope Sylvester I

Similar
  
Raphael artwork, Artwork at Raphael Rooms, Fresco

the donation of constantine translated from vatican archive 5314 dated 1451


The Donation of Constantine or Donation of Rome is a painting by assistants of the Italian renaissance artist Raphael. It was most likely painted by Gianfrancesco Penni or Giulio Romano, somewhere between 1520 and 1524. After the master's death in 1520, they worked together with other members of Raphael's workshop to finish the commission to decorate with frescoes the rooms that are now known as the Stanze di Raffaello, in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican. The Donation of Constantine is located in the Sala di Costantino ("Hall of Constantine"). It was inspired by the famous forged documents that supposedly granted the Popes sovereignty over Rome's territorial dominions.

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The painting depicts an apocryphal historical event: Emperor Constantine kneels before Pope Sylvester I and offers the Pope and his successors control of the city of Rome and the entire Western Roman Empire. The depiction of Sylvester is modeled after Pope Clement VII who became pope in 1523.[1] The painting (anachronistically) shows the interior of the original Saint Peter's Basilica,[2] which was in the process of being rebuilt at the time the painting was made. In the center background of the painting is the altar with its twisted, Solomonic columns. These columns were a gift from Constantine who supposedly took them from the ruined Jewish temple.

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