The Coronation of Charlemagne is a painting by the workshop of the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael.

Though it is believed that Raphael did make the designs for the composition, the fresco was probably painted by Gianfrancesco Penni.

[1] The painting was part of Raphael's commission to decorate the rooms that are now known as the Stanze di Raffaello, in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican.

The painting shows how Charlemagne was crowned Imperator Romanorum by Pope Leo III (pontiff from 795 to 816) on Christmas Evening, 800.

[3] According to Giorgio Vasari, the child page holding the royal crown is a portrait of the infant Ippolito de' Medici.