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Who did Pope Julius II entrust to decorate Vatican rooms with allegories?

   Michaelangelo
   Leonardo de Vinci
   Raphael
   Giorgio Vasari

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Answer: Pope Julius II entrusted Raphael Sanzio to decorate Vatican rooms with allegories. (An allegory is a picture or painting that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.) The stamps shown below are examples of allegories painted by Raphael on the vault of the Room of the Segnatura.

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Raphael Sanzio
5th Centenary of Birth
'Theology'
'Poetry'
'Justice'
'Philosophy'
726-728 (1983)