The School of Athens
The Cardinal and Theological Virtues is a lunette fresco by Raphael found on the south wall of the Stanza della Segnatura in the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican. Three of the cardinal virtues are personified as statuesque women seated in a bucolic landscape and the theological virtues are depicted by putti. The fresco was a part of Raphael's commission to decorate the private apartments of Pope Julius II. These rooms are now known as the Stanze di Raffaello. After completing his three monumental frescoes "Disputation of the Holy Sacrament", "The Parnassus", and "The School of Athens" in the Stanza della Segnatura, Raphael painted the "Cardinal and Theological Virtues" in 1511.