 X-rays, however, have revealed a uniform colour texture, contradicting hypotheses that it was a draft expanded over time by several hands.Restoration shortly before 2003 has confirmed that it relates more closely to "the monumental style Titian developed around 1510-11".It has been claimed that it must have been commissioned in the immediate aftermath of the battle and before 1503, since the militaristic pope Alexander VI died that year and from then on he was banned from official representations, in a kind of damnatio memoriae.