The Fire in the Borgo

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The Fire in the Borgo

Artist	Giulio Romano
Year	1514
Type	Fresco
Dimensions	? cm × 670 cm (?? × 260 in)
Location	Apostolic Palace, Vatican City

The Fire in the Borgo is a painting by the workshop of the Italian renaissance artist Raphael. 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 is located in the room that was named after it, the Stanza dell'incendio del Borgo ("The Room of the Fire in the Borgo").

The Fire in the Borgo shows an event that is documented in the Liber Pontificalis: a fire that broke out in the Borgo in Rome in 847 CE. According to legend, Pope Leo IV contained the fire with his benediction. The young man with an old man on his back in the foreground is an echo of the classical theme of Aeneas carrying his father Anchises from the fires of Troy; it is therefore an allusion to the traditional idea that Rome was the new Troy.

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"The Fire in the Borgo". Web Gallery of Art,. http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/r/raphael/4stanze/3borgo/1borgo.html. Retrieved September 10, 2010.
Hagen; Rose-Marie Hagen, Rainer Hagen. What great paintings say, Volume 1. Taschen. p. 117. ISBN 3822821004. http://books.google.com/books?id=aOzohrk8Mm8C&pg=PA117&dq=%22The+Fire+in+the+Borgo%22&hl=en&ei=3FeKTOTsBoH7lwfNq_GoCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22The%20Fire%20in%20the%20Borgo%22&f=false.

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Early works	The Kinnaird Resurrection Baronci Altarpiece St. Sebastian Oddi Altar Solly Madonna Mond Crucifixion Three Graces St. Michael Portrait of a Man Connestabile Madonna Madonna and Child The Marriage of the Virgin Vision of a Knight St. George Colonna Altarpiece Portrait of Perugino (also attributed to Lorenzo di Credi)

Florentine period	Portrait of Elisabetta Gonzaga (attributed) Portrait of Emilia Pia da Montefeltro (attributed) Portrait of Guidobaldo da Montefeltro Self-portrait Madonna of the Grand Duke Ansidei Madonna Young Man with an Apple Christ Blessing Madonna Terranuova Madonna of the Goldfinch Madonna of the Meadow Esterhazy Madonna Small Cowper Madonna St. George and the Dragon La donna gravida Portrait of Agnolo Doni Portrait of Maddalena Doni Madonna of the Pinks Young Woman with Unicorn Madonna with Beardless St. Joseph Saint Catherine of Alexandria Canigiani Holy Family La belle jardinière Deposition of Christ Portrait of a Young Woman Tempi Madonna Madonna Colonna Madonna de Bogota

Roman period	Portrait of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese La disputa The School of Athens Madonna of Loreto Aldobrandini Madonna Madonna with the Blue Diadem Portrait of a Cardinal Alba Madonna Niccolini-Cowper Madonna The Parnassus Cardinal and Theological Virtues The Prophet of Isaiah The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple Portrait of Pope Julius II Madonna of Foligno Madonna with the Fish Triumph of Galatea Sistine Madonna Madonna della seggiola Madonna dell'Impannata Madonna della tenda The Fire in the Borgo The Meeting of Leo the Great and Attila Deliverance of Saint Peter The Mass at Bolsena Portrait of Bindo Altoviti The Sibyls The Ecstasy of St. Cecilia Portrait of Balthasar Castiglione La donna velata Portrait of Tommaso Inghirami Palazzo Branconio dell'Aquila Portrait of Andrea Navagero and Agostino Beazzano Portrait of Cardinal Bibbiena Church of Sant'Eligio degli Orefici Creation of the World Transfiguration Portrait of Pope Leo X with Two Cardinals Christ Falling on the Way to Calvary The Holy Family of Francis I Ezekiel's Vision St. Michael Vanquishing Satan Madonna of the Rose Self-portrait with a Friend La fornarina Visitation Portrait of a Young Man The Miraculous Draught of Fishes Christ's Charge to Peter The Healing of the Lame Man The Death of Ananias The Stoning of St. Stephen Conversion of the Proconsul The Sacrifice at Lystra St. Paul in Prison St. Paul Preaching in Athens Palazzo Jacopo da Brescia