Caring 💥  🎨 

The Fire in the Borgo is a painting created by the workshop of the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael between 1514 and 1517. 

Though it is assumed that Raphael did make the designs for the complex composition, the fresco was most likely painted by his assistant Giulio Romano.

The painting was part of Raphael’s commission to decorate the rooms that are now known as the Stanze di Raffaello, in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican.

It depicts Pope Leo IV halting a fire in 847 with a benediction from a balcony in front of the Old St. Peter’s Basilica.

The mural lends its name to the Stanza dell’incendio del Borgo (“The Room of the Fire in the Borgo”).

The Virgil’s Aeneid tells that Aeneas carried his father, the elderly Anchises, and his son Ascancius when they escaped from Troy after it had been burned by the Greek army.

Raphael, inspired by the scene of Aeneas carries Anchises, painted a group in the left foreground, made up of an old man on the shoulders of a young man, and a child escaping the fire in the Borgo.

@peacewriter51