Raffaello e aiuti, Eliodoro cacciato dal Tempio, 1512-14. Musei Vaticani, Stanze di Raffaello -FG

A dynamic composition showing Heliodorus on the ground being trampled by a horse while two figures in tunics rush forward to strike him with whips. In the background, the architectural grandeur of the Temple is visible, including a seven-branched menorah to the left. Fleeing figures attempt to carry off chests of gold while coins spill from an overturned jar in the foreground.

Commissioned by Pope Julius II, this work serves as a political allegory for the protection of the Church against secular usurpers. It represents the High Renaissance belief in divine providence and the intervention of the supernatural within human history to protect sacred spaces.