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The Hall of Constantine (1517 - 1524)

All that was left to complete the Stanze was
the great Hall of Constantine.

Taken from many tasks, among which
the most burdensome were the design
of the new basilica of San Pietro and
the Loggia of Psyche in the Villa Chigi-Farnesina,
Raphael proceeded with a certain slowness,
so much so that only in 1520, just before he died,
had completed the drawings.

Therefore the Hall of Constantine was entirely painted
by the Bottega (workshop), inherited from Giulio Romano,
the most talented of Raphael's pupils,
who was 25 years old at the time.

Although the workshop followed the Master's drawings,
there is a certain discontinuity in the quality of the paintings.

The room includes four episodes:

 
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