Resumen de Lotto as Raphael's collaborator in the Stanza di Eliodoro
Part of a special section on Raphael on the occasion of “Raphael: From Urbino to Rome,” an exhibition at the National Gallery, London, through January 16, 2005. The writer discusses the role of Lorenzo Lotto as Raphael's collaborator in the decoration of the Stanza di Eliodoro in the Vatican, Rome. The fictive tapestries in the middle of the room's vault were painted after Raphael's autograph cartoons, but not by his own hand, as they come after his compositions on the walls. However, it would seem strange for Raphael personally to execute the unfinished parts in the corners while leaving the much larger central vault to an assistant. The writer contends that the alterations to the vault occurred toward the end of the decoration of this room, which seems to have been finished by July 1, 1514, when Raphael moved on to the Stanza dell'Incendio, and he argues that the fictive tapestries date from this period and can be attributed to Lotto.
