Disputa

"Disputa"; the three saints and the donor kneeling below on the earth before the beautiful landscape, the Child with a cartel on which was formerly written the ex-voto, show brilliant and scholarly painting, but perhaps too evident symmetry.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

Placed beside the "Disputa" of Raphael or the Sistine paintings of

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

This work is very powerful, and enough has not been said of Raphael's indebtedness to it for his first ideas for the "School of Athens" and the "Disputa".

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

That is, a spectator standing before the "Disputa" or the "School of Athens", even though he did not know the names of the persons and the meaning of the subject, would nevertheless immediately receive from the combination of forms and the general arrangement, an informing impression of the things represented.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

This fresco, which was important inasmuch as it contained the germ of the "Disputa", merely reproduces the arrangement of Fra Bartolommeo's "Last Judgment".

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

"Disputa"; these works so delighted the pope that he entrusted to

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

In his fresco (wrongly) called "Disputa", Raphael has assigned to arts and sciences their proper place in the kingdom of

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

The name "Disputa", though inappropriate, has clung to the painting.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

The "Disputa" is really a picture of the life of the

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

Each of these walls has a doorway at one end, and the way in which these openings are dissimulated and utilized is most ingenious, particularly in the "Disputa," where the bits of parapet which play an important part at either side of the composition, one pierced, the other solid, were suggested solely by the presence of this door.

Artist and Public And Other Essays On Art Subjects Kenyon Cox 1887