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The Coronation of Charlemagne

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A fresco designed by the workshop of Raphael, painted around 1516 to 1517, most likely by Gianfrancesco Penni, in the Stanza dell'Incendio of the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican. It depicts Pope Leo III crowning Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas Day in the year 800, with a page shown holding aside the crown Charlemagne had just worn as king. Art historians read the fresco's figures as carrying contemporary political meaning for the papacy of Leo X, alluding to the 1515 Concordat of Bologna between France and the Holy See rather than only to the historical coronation itself. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Medium (category)
Fresco 2
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Painting 1
Year Created
800 2
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Source The Coronation of Charlemagne (Wikipedia)

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1. The Coronation of Charlemagne (Wikipedia)
  • Genre reference
    A fresco designed by the workshop of Raphael, painted around 1516 to 1517, most likely by Gianfrancesco Penni, in the Stanza dell'Incendio of the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican.
  • In Form: Painting, lead paragraph
    The Coronation of Charlemagne is a painting by the workshop of the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. Though it is believed that Raphael did make the designs for the composition, the fresco was probably painted by Gianfrancesco P
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2. Wikidata: The Coronation of Charlemagne
  • Wikidata Q1450935, class allow-list match (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926 resolve_missing)
  • Wikidata Q1450935, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
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