Kategóriák: Minden - enlightenment - philosophy - architecture

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The School of Athens

The artwork known as "The School of Athens" is set within a building modeled after the shape of a Greek cross, potentially foreshadowing the architecture of St. Peter's Basilica, with assistance from Bramante.

The School of Athens

The School of Athens

four main frescoes on the walls of the Stanza

“Divine Inspiration”
“Knowledge of Things Divine”
"To Each What Is Due”
“Seek Knowledge of Causes”

The philosophers

Protogenes (Il Sodoma, Perugino or Timoteo Viti)
Ptolemy
Zoroaster
Euclid or Archimedes with students (Bramante)
Plotinus
Diogenes
Aristotle
Plato (Leonardo da Vinci)
Heraclitus (Michelangelo)
Socrates
Parmenides
Aeschines or Xenophon
Hypatia (Francesco Maria della Rovere)
Antisthenes or Xenophon
Alcibiades or Alexander the Great
Pythagoras
Averroes
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius or Anaximander or Empedocles
Federico II of Mantua
Epicurus
Zeno of Citium

The Enlightenment

Neoclassicism
Archeticure

most vividly represented in the Palladian architecture of Georgian Britain and Ireland

most were Roman copies of Hellenistic sculptures
surviving Baroque and Rococo styles

devoid of pastel colors and haziness

expression in architecture and sculpture
Rousseau vs. Voltaire
Public institutions
The book industry

The Republic of Letters and Grub Street

scientific and literary journals

scientific literature

Academies

Setting

The building is in the shape of a Greek cross,
There are two sculptures in the background

The sculpture on the right is Athena, goddess of wisdom, in her Roman guise as Minerva.[

The one on the left is the god Apollo, god of the Sun, archery and music, holding a lyre

Some have suggested that the building itself was intended to be an advance view of St. Peter's Basilica
Bramante helped Raphael with the architecture in the picture
The architecture of the building was inspired by the work of Bramante
harmony between pagan philosophy and Christian theology