Open to the
public only with special permission
Sala Regia
Royal Room
1540/73 begun by Antonio Cordini aka Antonio da Sangallo the Younger (1483/1546). It is next to the Sistine Chapel and it was
used to receive monarchs
Stucco coffered barrel vault by Pietro Bonaccorsi aka Perin del Vaga (1501/47)
Stuccos on
the walls by Daniele da Volterra (1509/66)
All the
paintings depict papal victories designed to remind the visiting monarchs of
the papal primacy
Large historical frescoes
“Battle of
Lepanto” and “Return of Gregory XI Beaufort (1370/78) from Avignon” 1571 and “Night
of St. Bartholomew” 1572 by Giorgio Vasari
(1511/74)
“Submission of Barbarossa to Alexander III Bandinelli
(1159/81)” by Francesco de' Rossi aka Francesco Salviati
(1510/63)
“Capture of
Tunis” and “Henry IV in front of Gregory VII (1073/85)” and panel over the door
with “Donation of Charlemagne” by Taddeo Zuccari
(1529/66) with his brother Federico Zuccari
(about 1542/1609)
“The
culmination of the artistic activity of Taddeo Zuccari coincides with the work
at the Sala Regia. (...) Of his Donation of Charlemagne both the pleasing
arrangement of color and the cleverly harmonious composition were appreciated.
(...) Overall it is hardly a masterpiece, but compared to the work of his
competitors it is pleasant, thanks to the lightness and safety of the stroke.
The Taking of Tunis also shows a similar mix of strengths and weaknesses. The
fresco with Henry IV in front of Gregory VII, after the death of the artist, was
completed by his brother, while the two allegorical figures above the door
still betray the style of Taddeo” (Hermann Voss)
“Triumph of
Faith over Unfaithfulness” by Lorenzo Sabatini (about
1530/76)
Smaller pictures
“Return of
the provinces to Agapito” by Orazio Sammachini (1532/77)
“Donation of Ravenna” by Girolamo
Siciolante da Sermoneta (1521/80)
“The offer
of Pietro d'Aragona to Eugene III (1145/53)” by Livio
Agresti (about 1508/79)
“Single
perfect figures, such as the warrior standing in the left foreground, are
isolated, while the protagonists of the scene do not reach the same level”
(Hermann Voss)
Other paintings by Marco Pino aka Marco
da Siena (about 1525/87)
Aula delle Benedizioni
Room
of the Blessings
Next to the
Royal Room above the Atrium of St. Peter, with the same size
Damaged
fresco in the upper part “Boat of the apostles” 1627/28 by Giovanni Lanfranco (1582/1647) formerly in the passage
to the Chapel
of Sts. Michael and Petronilla in the Basilica of St. Peter,
placed here in 1721 when it was substituted with a copy in mosaic by Pietro Paolo Cristofari (1685/1743). It had in turn
replaced a 1605 fresco by the poor Bernardo Castello
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