ART 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Donato Bramante
Lecture 10
2/22/ 2017
Title: the school of athens
artist: Raphael
year: 1509 to 1511
Format: fresco
- background:
- Rome was ghost town
- Julius 2 (pope)
- began constructing many buildings
- rebuilt St. Peter’s basilica - built under bramante
- Papal apartments
- Stanza de la segnatura
- paintings told about subjects of books
- theology, law, poetry, philosophy
- Painting
- shows ruins of Rome - old and new
- central figures- perspective shows center
- have sky around heads
- Plato and Aristotle
- Plato
- barefooted ( feet pointed up) , hand upward, book (timaeus) facing up
- shows knowledge comes from sky
- Aristotle
- wearing sandals
- feet kept on ground
- gesture says look down here
- Ethics book - horizontal position
- Statues
- apollo - god of music (math) and inspiration
- athena- wisdom, thought
- Raphael
- very successful
- shows that body reveals motion of mind
- Pythagoras- math determines plane
- teaching math
- holding book
- Hearclitus
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