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This blog is an art history experiment for our Italian Renaissance travel course. We hope that you, our visitors, will not only take some time to read about what we are studying, but will ALSO feel free to make comments or ask us questions...especially after we see (most of) these things in person. As we travel, we will offer personal reflections on our experiences. After we fly out on the 17th, follow us as we visit Rome (May 18-20), Florence (20-24), and Venice (24-25). We return on Thursday, May 26...just in time for the holiday weekend.

Thursday, May 12, 2011

The Liberation of St. Peter from Prison, Raphael


•Commissioned in August 1511
•Story coming from Acts 12
•Lunette- half moon shape
•Stanza de Eliodoro, audience chamber of Julius II
•Stories of aggression against the church, God’s protection of the Church
•Peter is a portrait of Julius II
•Peter’s salvation is a reference to the deliverance of the papacy from the French
•Prison built of rusticated blocks like Bramante was using for new palaces
•Grate taken from earlier representations of John the Baptist in prison
•Investigation in light
•Clouds in front of moon
•Torches against the armor of the guards
•Light from the Angelo  
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