Chapter 1740: Raphael Studio

Before you know it, the time is approaching six o'clock in the afternoon.

After visiting several exhibition halls in succession, Ye Tian and the others came to one of the most important and famous exhibition halls of the Vatican Museum, Raphael Studio, and prepared to visit a series of top artworks displayed here.

At this time, Antonio has already left. After all, he is the curator of the Vatican Museums. There are many things to deal with, and it is impossible to accompany Ye Tian and the others for a long time.

In addition to Antonio, several other senior members of the Vatican Museum also left one after another for similar reasons.

However, Leonardo, two priests, several museum managers, and two security personnel are still there, and they continue to accompany Ye Tian and the others on the tour, which is not without supervision.

The Vatican Museums are full of valuable and top antique artworks, and most of them have special religious significance. How dare they let it go, let Ye Tian and the others visit by themselves!

Even if Ye Tian is a super rich, top antique art appraisal expert, and knows how to protect antique art, the museum cannot be completely at ease.

After Antonio and the others left, Ye Tian took over all the responsibilities of talking and talking. While admiring the antique artworks displayed in various exhibition halls, he introduced and explained Betty and the others.

If he encounters antique works of art that he is not familiar with or not very familiar with, the explainer who follows will come forward and explain.

As before, when he walked into Raphael's studio, Ye Tian began to introduce the exhibition hall, and his clear voice echoed throughout the exhibition hall and into the ears of everyone present.

"This is the famous Raphael Studio. I will not introduce Raphael, one of the three masters of Renaissance art. Everyone knows them well and has appreciated many of his works.

In 1508, the Roman Catholic Church launched a large-scale artistic construction. Raphael, who had already gained fame at the age of 25, came to Rome with pride and accepted the Pope’s commission as an artist.

The Raphael Studio in front of us is a set of rooms commissioned by Pope Julius II to decorate Raphael. It consists of four consecutive rooms and is located on the second floor of the Pope’s Palace in the Vatican.

Starting in 1508 and ending in 1524, it took Raphael and his students 16 years to complete all the renovation work and create this magnificent art palace.

As we all know, Raphael died in 1520, entered the Holy See at the age of 25, and died at the age of 37. Raphael’s 12 most glorious years in his life were all dedicated to this place.

Here is a faithful record of Raphael's most glorious artistic career. He left many great works of art here, and those great works of art have also made this studio.

There is no doubt that the Raphael Studio is a treasure of the Vatican Museum’s painting category. The collection of Raphael’s paintings here is the world’s most and most essential, unparalleled."

Following Ye Tian's circumstantial explanation, Betty and Anderson were all looking at the exhibition hall they were in, and admiring the many top artworks displayed in this exhibition hall.

Without exception, each of them was completely shocked by this magnificent exhibition hall, and was completely attracted by the famous top art works, with an expression of intoxication.

Leonardo, who was standing a little later, and the other Vatican figures showed some admiration in their eyes, and they were all impressed by Ye Tian's wonderful explanation.

After a pause, Ye Tian continued to smile and said loudly:

"There are four rooms in the Raphael Studio. If they are introduced in the order of Raphael's paintings, their order should be the Signature Hall, the Elliot Hall, the Fire Alarm Hall, and the Constantine Hall.

But if they are introduced in terms of the architectural layout and the order of space to visit, they should be arranged like this, first the Constantine Hall, then the Elliot Hall, the Signature Hall, and the Fire Alarm Hall.

The place where we are now is the Constantine Room, which was once the Pope’s reception room. The Constantine Room was designed by Raphael himself, but he only completed the draft and passed away before completion.

As the name suggests, this room is to commemorate Constantine the Great. The four frescoes in the hall mainly show the Roman Emperor Constantine, who is very high in the hearts of Christians.

In 312 AD, on the eve of the decisive battle at the Milvi Bridge with Maxentie for the throne, Constantine declared that he had seen the Manifestation of Christ, a symbol of the Roman Empire’s recognition of the legality of Christianity.

After the victory of the Milvi Bridge, Constantine fulfilled his promise and promulgated the famous "Milan Amnesty", which enabled Christianity to spread from the underground to the ground, and from then on quickly spread and grew.

Raphael used four murals to express this theme, which in turn are "The Baptism of Constantine", "The Cross Appears to Constantine", "The Battle of the Milvi Bridge", and "The Tribute of Constantine".

Because of Raphael's untimely death, most of these murals were painted by his students Romano, Penney, and others based on Raphael's drafts. In this regard, it is somewhat regrettable.

Nevertheless, the grand and harmonious layout of these murals and the noble and elegant characterization still show Raphael’s mark everywhere. Let’s start with the "Battle of Millvey Bridge" on the left.

With that, Ye Tian and Betty came to stand a few meters away from the wall on the left side of the room, and began to admire this magnificent classicist mural, "The Battle of Milvy Bridge."

The Battle of Milvi Bridge was a famous battle that took place in 312 AD. The two sides were Constantine and Maxenti.

With the victory of this battle, Constantine abolished the four emperors and became the only monarch of the Roman Empire, marking the beginning of Constantine's conversion to Christianity.

From then on, Christianity came to the earth from the underground, and with the strong support of the Roman Empire, it began to develop rapidly and soon spread throughout the Western world.

After visiting this magnificent and magnificent mural, Ye Tian and the others went to the next mural, "The Cross Appears to Constantine", and began to appreciate this famous mural.

Next was "The Baptism of Constantine", and finally "A Gift of Constantine". Ye Tian and the others carefully appreciated every mural.

At the same time, Ye Tian gave a wonderful explanation for every mural here to deepen Betty and the others' understanding and better appreciate these top artworks.

After admiring the four murals in the Constantine Hall and the several Renaissance sculptures displayed in this hall, Ye Tian and the others moved on and walked into the next room.

The next room is the Eliodoro Hall, a dazzling art temple.

On the ceiling of this hall, there are four zenith paintings painted by Raphael, based on four stories in the Old Testament of the Bible.

They are ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Noah leaves the ark, Abraham wants Isaac to sacrifice, Moses burns bushes in front of him, and Jacob dreams of a ladder.

There are several frescoes painted on the walls of the hall, all by Raphael, each of which is a valuable and top art, radiating brilliance and incomparable brilliance in the history of art!

The four frescoes are: "Elliot Dolo's Captured at the Temple in Jerusalem", "St. Peter's Escape from Prison", "Mass in Bolsena", and "Leo V Repels Attila the Hun" .

Among them, "Elliodolo was captured in the Jerusalem Temple" is the most famous. The main theme is to convey the inviolability of the church industry. The name of the Elliodolo Hall is derived from this famous mural!

The other three murals, "Mass in Bolsena" and "St. Peter's Escape from Prison", and "Leo V Repelling Attila the Hun", mainly express the spiritual and secular power of the church under the blessing of God.

What's interesting is that in "Eliotolo's Captured in the Jerusalem Temple", the figure of the client, Pope Julius II, appeared, which looked like a rigid placement advertisement!

In "Mass in Bolsena", the client Pope Julius II reappears and is very conspicuous. Raphael himself becomes a member of the Swiss Guard, looking outside the painting!

This kind of creative technique can often be seen in Raphael's other works. Raphael took it to the extreme and exerted considerable influence on many painters at that time and later.

After entering the Eliodoro Hall, Ye Tian first scanned the panorama quickly, and then took Betty to the fresco "St. Peter's Escape from Prison" and began to admire this famous mural.

At the same time, his professional explanation started again, still so wonderful.

"St. Peter's Escape from Prison" is a very special mural, painted by Raphael himself. It is a very famous light source work in the history of Western art.

The content of the mural tells that St. Peter, the eldest disciple of Jesus, was locked up for preaching. God sent angels to rescue him. The painting depicts this famous story.

As we all know, Saint Peter is the first pope of Christianity. If he is saved, it means that all popes in later generations will be blessed by God, which has a very special meaning.

In the middle of the fresco, St. Peter is asleep~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The angel came quietly at this time, trying to wake him, the angel radiated a strong light, illuminating everything.

The armor of the soldiers at the prison gate also reflected a bright light. On the left side of the mural, the warden found that St. Peter had been rescued, so he immediately awakened the soldiers and asked them to hunt.

In the area on the left of the mural, the light source comes from the moon in the sky. It is cold and dark. The warden holds a torch in his hand, which is another light source in this famous mural.

The reason why Raphael’s mural is classic is that these special light sources are constantly interspersed in the dark prison, which greatly enhances the sense of space and perspective,..."

While explaining, Ye Tian also secretly turned on perspective, and began to explore this famous fresco and this wall.

As far as he could see, the mural and the wall that carried it were instantly seen through by Ye Tian, ​​and there were no more secrets.

In this mural, Ye Tian discovered several little secrets left by Raphael, some of which have already been discovered and made public, and some were discovered for the first time and are still unknown.

Among them are the secret signatures left by Raphael, as well as some tricks he played, which are innocuous and hidden in various positions of the painting.

Unlike Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael rarely plays mysterious and puzzling games such as mysterious characters and Fibonacci numbers.

The secrets he left in his paintings seem to be more like real games. They are his little jokes and mood adjustments in the process of artistic creation!

In addition to these little secrets, through perspective, Ye Tian seems to see Raphael, who is standing in front of this wall with a paintbrush in his hand, and is fully swaying his amazing talents. It seems that he has seen the great era of shining stars!