与此同时，在Robert Rauschenberg的生活中
完整生平1997
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 · 获奖
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.
![Ginevra de' Benci [obverse], Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1474/1478](https://api.nga.gov/iiif/8f29e3c9-a289-4d53-abf0-31a66e9e98fa/full/!2400,2400/0/default.jpg)
![Wreath of Laurel, Palm, and Juniper with a Scroll inscribed Virtutem Forma Decorat [reverse], Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1474/1478](https://api.nga.gov/iiif/ff62e8d0-45c4-498f-ad36-6358de827e04/full/!2400,2400/0/default.jpg)
