Pope+Julius+II;+Raphael,+1512


 * No One Knows Which One is Real**


 * Creator || Raphael ||
 * Title || Portrait of Pope Julius II ||
 * Work Type || painting ||
 * Date || 1511 ||
 * Material || oil on panel ||
 * Measurements || 107 x 80 cm ||
 * Repository || Galleria degli Uffizi ||
 * ARTstor Collection || Italian and other European Art (Scala Archives) ||

**HISTORY:**

Raphael painted not just one, but two copies of the same portrait of Pope Julius II. One of the portraits can be found in the Uffizi in Florence, while the other is in the National Gallery in London. Until 1970, it was thought that the painting in London was a copy done by a student of Raphael and the painting in the Uffizi is the original by Raphael (Landseer, 1834). **‍ **The National Gallery’s Cecil Gould and Konrad Oberhuber are two critics that have tried to change this opinion. They claim that with scientific data (X-rays) and historical records, the painting in the National Gallery must be that of Raphael. This theory was challenged again by Professor James Beck, of Columbia University in 1996 (Hilton Monk Gould, 1970).

**SOURCES:**

Aretino, P. (1995). //Titian's portraits through aretino's lens//. University Park: Penn State Press.

Hall, M. (Ed.). (2005). //The cambridge companion to raphael//. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Hilton Monk Gould, C. (1970). //Raphael's portrait of pope julius ii: the re-emergence of the original//. London: National Gallery.

Landseer, J. (1834). //A descriptive, explanatory, and critical, catalogue: of fifty of the earliest pictures contained in the national gallery of great britain//. London: R. Glynn.