Raphael's Four Sibyls

Map

Frescoes by Raphael & Timoteo Viti

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Around the year 1514 the wealthy papal banker Agostino Chigi commissioned Raphael (1483-1520) to design a small chapel in the church of Santa Maria della Pace.

However, the Cappella Chigi wasn't completed until the reign of Pope Alexander VII (r. 1655-67), who was Agostino Chigi's great-nephew. 

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Chigi Chapel

The Deposition, bronze relief by Cosimo Fancelli