Robert RauschenbergAmerican, 1925–2008'topher
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National Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C., United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
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- In this state since
- Aug 19, 2026
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- The museum's own collection data
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- Accession number
- 2002.42.9
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Meanwhile, in the life of Robert Rauschenberg
The whole life1997
Retrospective at the Guggenheim
A major Rauschenberg retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York travelled to Houston, Cologne and Bilbao through 1999.
1998 · Award
Praemium Imperiale
1998–1999
The Vatican rejects his “Happy Apocalypse”
In 1998 the Vatican commissioned a work from Rauschenberg for the Jubilee year 2000, to be shown in the Padre Pio Liturgical Hall at San Giovanni Rotondo. On the theme of the Last Judgement he created “The Happy Apocalypse” (1999), a twenty-foot maquette, but the Vatican rejected it, judging his depiction of God as a satellite dish an inappropriate theological reference.
![Scenes from the Passion of Christ: The Descent into Limbo [right panel], Andrea Vanni, 1380s](https://api.nga.gov/iiif/4205a539-eadd-4486-89a7-3cff9c1ba428/full/!2400,2400/0/default.jpg)
