Loggia di raffaello, 11, 01

Samuel is depicted pouring sacred oil from a horn over the head of the young shepherd David, who leans on his crook. To the left, figures prepare a ram for sacrifice on a stone altar piled with wood, while onlookers stand to the right. The scene is framed by a brick structure that opens to a view of a distant landscape and hilltop city.

This scene represents the transmission of divine sovereignty and spiritual authority through ritual. In the Renaissance Neoplatonic tradition, King David was revered as a 'divine musician' and prophet whose psalms were thought to channel the harmony of the spheres, an idea championed by Marsilio Ficino.