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'{{Infobox artwork | image_file=Raphael Baptism Constantine.jpg | image_size=350px | title=The Baptism of Constantine | artist=Gianfrancesco Penni | year=1517-1524 | type=fresco | city=Vatican City | museum=Apostolic Palace}} '''''The Baptism of Constantine''''' is a [[painting]] by assistants of the [[Italy|Italian]] [[renaissance]] artist [[Raphael]]. It was most likely painted by [[Gianfrancesco Penni]], between 1517 and 1524. After the master's death in 1520, Penni worked together with other members of Raphael's workshop to finish the commission to decorate with [[fresco]]es the rooms that are now known as the [[Raphael Rooms|Stanze di Raffaello]], in the [[Apostolic Palace]] in the [[Vatican City|Vatican]]. ''The Baptism of Constantine'' is located in the ''Sala di Costantino'' ("Hall of Constantine"). In the painting the Emperor [[Constantine I|Constantine the Great]] is depicted kneeling down to receive the sacrament from [[Pope Sylvester I]] in the [[Lateran Baptistery|Baptistery]] of the [[Lateran|St John Lateran]]. The painter has given Sylvester the traits of [[Pope Clement VII|Clement VII]], the Pope who had ordered the frescoes to be finished, after the work was interrupted during the papacy of [[Pope Hadrian VI|Hadrian VI]]. While attempting the control and serenity typical of the [[High Renaissance]], the crowded scene demonstrates the [[Mannerism|Mannerist]] tendency towards complexity and discordance. ==References== {{reflist}} {{nofootnotes|date=July 2010}} * [http://mv.vatican.va/3_EN/pages/x-Schede/SDRs/SDRs_01_03_005.html Baptism of Constantine] at mv.vatican.va {{DEFAULTSORT:Baptism Of Constantine}} [[Category:Raphael rooms]] [[Category:1524 paintings]] [[Category:Constantine the Great and Christianity]] {{Painting-stub}} : See another painting of the Catholic Baptism of Saint Constantine The Great by Pope Saint Sylvester I at http://catholiclane.com/st-sylvester-i-pope/st-sylvester-i/ philipofBVM~~~~'