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This portrait of the careworn Pope Julius II (1443–1513) is usually dated to the one-and-a-half-year period during which he wore a beard. He grew it in 1510 as a token of mortification while recovering from a serious illness brought on by the loss of Bologna to the French, and vowed not to shave it off until French troops had been expelled from Italy, which happened in 1512. Julius was a great patron of the arts, commissioning Raphael to decorate the papal apartments in the Vatican and ordering the rebuilding of St Peter’s in Rome. The two golden acorns on the Pope’s chair allude to his family name, della Rovere (rovere is Italian for oak). The portrait was displayed on 12 December 1513, after Julius’s death, in the Roman church of Santa Maria del Popolo.
Title
Portrait of Pope Julius II
Date
1511
Medium
Oil on poplar
Measurements
H 108.7 x W 81 cm
Accession number
NG27
Acquisition method
Bought, 1824
Work type
Painting
The National Gallery, London
Trafalgar Square, London, Greater London WC2N 5DN England
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