Plato and Aristotle. Youth holds at the feet of Pythagoras a panel on which is inscribed his consonances of song. Pythagoras saw in the geometry of musical harmony a key to the order of the cosmos "harmony of the spheres". The two thinkers in the very center, Aristotle on the right and Plato on the left, pointing up have been enormously important to Western thinking generally, and in different ways, their different philosophies were incoporated into Christianity.
Plato holds his book called The Timaeus. Plato points up because in his philosophy the changing world that we see around us is just a shadow of a higher, truer reality that is eternal and unchanging and include things like goodness and beauty. For Plato, this otherworldly reality is the ultimate reality, and the seat of all truth, beauty, justice, and wisdom.
Aristotle holds his hand down, because in his philosophy, the only reality is the reality that we can see and experience by sight and touch exactly the reality dismissed by Plato. Pythagoras lower left believed that the world including the movement of the planets and stars operated according to mathematical laws. Is this sculpture actually representing the work of Michelangelo's Dying Slave?
Moral philosophy side. Athena with her shield, upon which the Gorgon is sculpted. The relief under Athena represents Virtue elevated upon the clouds. Cardinal Farnese asked Giorgio Vasari to assemble "a catalogue of artists and their works, listed in chronological order". The result was 'The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects', first published in in Florence, and revised and extended for a second edition in Vasari tries to explain which persons are shown in the School of Athens Fresco.
The bones of Raphael were laid in a tomb since , with an epitaph recording the esteem in which he was held by Popes Julius II. On Sept.
Other Versions of Raphael's School of Athens. The Stereoscopic pair: Athens is Burning. The School of Athens extended as time advances Raphael's School of Hollywood. Part 1. I thank all visitors who provided interesting comments that I included and I would be happy to receive additional information, suggestions, comments about the persons in this painting or any other information about Raphael's School of Athens.
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