1510 Works - 1510 Architecture, 1510 Paintings, the School of Athens, Globus Jagellonicus, Sleeping Venus, Brdo Castle Near Kranj (Paperback)


Chapters: 1510 Architecture, 1510 Paintings, the School of Athens, Globus Jagellonicus, Sleeping Venus, Brdo Castle Near Kranj, Disputation of the Holy Sacrament, Portrait of a Knight, Madonna of Loreto, Dead Christ, Aldobrandini Madonna, Portrait of a Cardinal, Self-Portrait. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 34. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The School of Athens, or in Italian, is one of the most famous paintings by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. It was painted between 1510 and 1511 as a part of Raphael's commission to decorate with frescoes the rooms now known as the, in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican. The was the first of the rooms to be decorated, and The School of Athens the second painting to be finished there, after, on the opposite wall. The picture has long been seen as "Raphael's masterpiece and the perfect embodiment of the classical spirit of the High Renaissance." The "School of Athens" is one of a group of four main frescoes on the walls of the Stanza (those on either side centrally interrupted by windows) that depict distinct branches of knowledge. Each theme is identified above by a separate tondo containing a majestic female figure seated in the clouds, with putti bearing the phrases: Seek Knowledge of Causes, Divine Inspiration, Knowledge of Things Divine (Disputa), To Each What Is Due. Accordingly, the figures on the walls below exemplify Philosophy, Poetry (including Music), Theology, Law. The traditional title is not Raphael's, and the subject of the School is actually "Philosophy," or at least ancient Greek philosophy, and its overhead tondo-label, Causarum Cognitio tells us what kind, as it appears to echo Aristotles emphasis on wisdom as knowing why, hence knowing the causes, in Metaphysics Book I and Metaphysics Book II. Indeed, Aristotl...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=3206582

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Chapters: 1510 Architecture, 1510 Paintings, the School of Athens, Globus Jagellonicus, Sleeping Venus, Brdo Castle Near Kranj, Disputation of the Holy Sacrament, Portrait of a Knight, Madonna of Loreto, Dead Christ, Aldobrandini Madonna, Portrait of a Cardinal, Self-Portrait. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 34. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The School of Athens, or in Italian, is one of the most famous paintings by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. It was painted between 1510 and 1511 as a part of Raphael's commission to decorate with frescoes the rooms now known as the, in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican. The was the first of the rooms to be decorated, and The School of Athens the second painting to be finished there, after, on the opposite wall. The picture has long been seen as "Raphael's masterpiece and the perfect embodiment of the classical spirit of the High Renaissance." The "School of Athens" is one of a group of four main frescoes on the walls of the Stanza (those on either side centrally interrupted by windows) that depict distinct branches of knowledge. Each theme is identified above by a separate tondo containing a majestic female figure seated in the clouds, with putti bearing the phrases: Seek Knowledge of Causes, Divine Inspiration, Knowledge of Things Divine (Disputa), To Each What Is Due. Accordingly, the figures on the walls below exemplify Philosophy, Poetry (including Music), Theology, Law. The traditional title is not Raphael's, and the subject of the School is actually "Philosophy," or at least ancient Greek philosophy, and its overhead tondo-label, Causarum Cognitio tells us what kind, as it appears to echo Aristotles emphasis on wisdom as knowing why, hence knowing the causes, in Metaphysics Book I and Metaphysics Book II. Indeed, Aristotl...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=3206582

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September 2010

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22

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978-1-157-72566-4

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