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Sixtus IV appointing Bartolomeo Platina Prefect of the Vatican Library, c.1477 (fresco)

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SBL3362266
Image title
Sixtus IV appointing Bartolomeo Platina Prefect of the Vatican Library, c.1477 (fresco)
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Artist
Forli, Melozzo da (1438-94) / Italian
Location
Vatican Museums and Galleries (Musei e Gallerie Pontificie), Vatican City
Medium
fresco removed and transferred to canvas
Date
c. 1477 AD (C15th AD)
Dimensions
370x315 cms
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Sixtus IV della Rovere - Pope from 1471 to 1484). Bartolomeo Sacchi (1421 – 21 September 1481), known as Platina: Italian Renaissance humanist writer and gastronomist. Sixtus IV is seated on his throne on the right, among his cardinal nephews and lay nephews. The apostolic pronotary Raffaele Riario is on his right, the future pope Julius II (pontiff from 1503 to 1513) standing before him, and Girolamo Riario and Giovanni della Rovere are behind Platina.

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15th century / kneeling / interior / sixtus iv / library / kneeling / appoint / prefect / appointing / 15th century / architecture / throne / xv century / nominating / nominate / rome / sixtus iv della rovere / bartolomeo sacchi / platinal
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