raphael reflects humanism
From 1509 to 1512, Rafael Sanzio created The School of Athens, a fresco that famously reflects the humanistic interpretations of the Italian Renaissance. This magnificent work is located in the Stanza della Segnatara in the Vatican at Rome, the city Rafael died in April of 1526. At a young age Rafael traveled to Florence, where the Renaissance began, he was influenced by Leonardo da Vinci, Plato, and Aristotle, as well as Socrates, Plutarch and many other great writers, philosophers and theologians. In The School of Athens Rafael depicts these men and very intricately reflects the thoughts and politics of the Renaissance. "The extent of Raphael's style is equally prodigious in its interpretation of the most complex stories, the episodical significance of which is transcend into moments of form and light" (Camesasca 9). There is a very definite connection to humanism in this fresco. Humanism "included a great diversity of emphasis and underwent constant change…the noted scholar Paul Joachimsen proposed a simple and fairly concrete definition of humanism as an intellectual movement primarily literary and philosophical…rooted in the love and desire for the rebirth of classica
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