This painting was painted by twenty-seven year-old Rafaello Sanzio for Pope Julius II (1503-1513). Raffaello Santi or Raffaello Sanzio was born in Urbino on April 6, 1483, and started to paint as such young age under his father the painter Giovanni Santi. In 1499, he went to Perugia in Umbria and became a student and assistant of the painter Perugino. He was able to imitate his master very well therefore it was hard for art historians to determine which were painted by Rafaello.
In 1504, he moved to Florence where he studied the work of amazing artists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, learning their methods of demonstrating the play of light and shadow, anatomy, and dramatic action. In 1508 Raphael was called to Rome by Pope Julius…show more content… Plato and Aristotle surrounded by other great thinkers and philosophers and mathematicians from antiquity. Every known great figure that have been optimistically identified using accurate historical evidence. In the center we can recognize Plato from Aristotle because Plato is much older and was Aristotle’s teacher. And also because he holds one of his own books, the Timaeus which is about the origin of the world. And Aristotle holds his book, the ethics. Both of those books represent the contrasting philosophies of these two…show more content… This idea that the world of appearances is not the final truth and that there is a realm that is based on mathematics; on pure idea that is firmer than the everyday world that we see. Whereas Aristotle, his student focused his attention on the observable, the actual, and the physical. And we can notice that his palm is down while describing the earth and the wide realm of moral teaching with his extended hand in an elegant horizontal gesture. Moreover, the colors that each of the figures wear, they represent more than just vibrant clothing. Plato wears purple and red. The purple refers to air and the red refers to fire. Aristotle wears blue and brown that is the colors of earth and water, which have gravity. So the philosophers on either side of Plato and Aristotle continue this division. Philosophers concerned with issues of the ideal On the side of Plato. For example, on the lower left we see Pythagoras, the great ancient mathematician, who discovered laws of harmony in music and mathematics. This idea that there is a reality that transcends the reality that we see. Compare the lower right where we see Euclid or Archimedes, the figure associates with geometry. Euclid is modeled on Bramante asked by Pope Julius II to provide a new model for a new Saint Peter’s. In fact, Bramante’s design for Saint Peter’s was based on a perfect geometry
