The Raphael Loggias

    The State Hermitage

 

 

      The Raphael Loggias

The Raphael Loggia is one of the most magnificent rooms in the New Hermitage

Giacomo Antonio Domenico Quarenghi

Raphael Loggias at the Hermitage Museum

 

Raphael Rooms at the Vatican

The Hermitage gallery was created at Catherine II's wish.

The vaults are decorated with scenes from the Bible, each one showing four subjects.

Creation of Animals  
1780s 
Unterberger, Christoph  
Studio 

The Sacrifice of Isaac

     Moses with the Testimonies

      The Judgment of Solomon

       The Adoration of the Magi

            The Last Supper

Grotesque Design

             Detail of painting

By order of Catherine II a portrait of the 'divine Raphael' was set up on the south wall of the gallery