Year 1514 Artist Raphael Period High Renaissance Subject Attila, Pope Leo I | Type Fresco Created 1514 Genre History painting | |
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Dimensions 500 cm × 750 cm (200 in × 300 in) Locations Raphael Rooms, Apostolic Palace Similar The Expulsion of Heliod, Deliverance of Saint Peter, The Mass at Bolsena, The Fire in the Borgo, Cardinal and Theologic | ||
The Meeting of Leo I and Attila is a fresco by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael and his assistant Giulio Romano. It was painted in 1514 as part of Raphael's commission to decorate the rooms that are now known as the Stanze di Raffaello, in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican. It is located in the Stanza di Eliodoro, which is named after The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple.
The painting depicts the meeting between the Pope Leo I and Attila the Hun, and includes the images of Saint Peter and Saint Paul in the sky bearing swords. Initially, Raphael depicted Leo I with the face of Pope Julius II but after Julius' death, Raphael changed the painting to resemble the new pope, Leo X.
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