These top-quality Fine Art Prints are printed on 100 percent acid free cotton archival Fine Art Paper: fine art velvet or ulrasmooth, depending on paper size. Ultrachrome inks enhance the archival properties of the media ensuring a print life of many generations. The prints are reproduced as accurately as possible based on the original paintings. The images are not distorted in any way to make them fit standard print sizes. The images are enlarged or reduced proportionally to fit as close to the standard size as possible. This means the images are not cropped and each print will have every detail of the original painting. Consequently most prints will have a white border which can be covered with matte board prior to framing. All orders are custom printed and shipped flat in boxes for domestic orders. Our largest prints and International orders are shipped on rolls due to shipping size restrictions.    A very important note: Each print is custom made to order and is therefore non-returnable. In the unlikely event that the print has a production defect, it will be replaced with the same size reproduction of the same exact piece of artwork. There are no exceptions to this policy. About this beautiful image - Giuliano della Rovere, Pope Julius II (1443-1515), elected pope in 1503. He was a lover of war, who led his own armies; and a lover of art, commissioning some of the greatest works in western history: Raphael's decorated rooms in the Vatican and Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling. Julius's image as bearded patriarch invites comparison with Michelangelo's Moses carved on the pope's unfinished tomb at the church of San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome. Michelangelo's Moses and Raphael's Julius both look past us, are seated in majesty over us, and have the power to judge us for eternity. Michelangelo said when he fell out with Julius he could feel the rope around his neck. Looking at Raphael's portrait, we are in the presence of unquestionable authority. Excerpts from: http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/portrait/story/0,11109,739744,00.html