Raphael produces the Portrait of Cardinal Alessandro…
1511 CE
Raphael produces the Portrait of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, a portrait of the future Pope Paul III, in 1509-11.
On the four walls of the first room he decorates for Pope Julius—the Stanza della Segnatura, completed in 1511—Raphael celbrates four aspects of human, and especially papal, accomplishment: theology (“Disputation over the Sacrament” or “Disputa”), the arts (“Parnassus”), law (“Cardinal Virtues” and “Giving of the Law”), and philosophy (“School of Athens,” in which Raphael immodestly includes portraits of both himself and Michelangelo among the philosophers).
Raphael's rival and Michelangelo's associate Sebastiano del Piombo, born Sebastiano Luciani in Venice, as a student of Giovanni Bellini and Giorgione, had shared his training with Palma Vecchio and Titian, with whom he seems to have been on friendly terms until he moves to Rome in 1511.