Raphael

The School of Athens by Raphael

The Renaissance was a revolutionary period of history, the time when human being started to discover significance of art that played a major role in that era which drove it into various developments. Art was a way for the artist to express and defined their emotions and thoughts about the world round them and the society. Raphael just like several other brilliant artists had created a high definition fresco called The School of Athens painted between 1510 and 1511 in the Papal Palace in the Vatican. The School of Athens could easily reference to the society of the High Renaissance their appreciations of the Ancient Greek philosophies, mathematician and scientist. At the vanishing point you can see the two main men in the middle which is the most important figure in the picture that is Plato a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician and the founder of Academy in Athens. With his student on the right named Aristotle with his the passions for logic, science and politics cutting the painting into two different viewed. How can The School of Athens be a mirror of a society? I strongly believe that the artwork is a mirror of the society with all the evidences of men in conversion, men reading and writing, people debating about theories clearly shows a society of the Renaissance. Far beyond what we can imagine how knowledge nourish the arts of sciences, mathematics and philosophies into the future.

The Man of the Renaissance

Leonardo da Vinci

The Renaissance was a “rebirth” from the Middle Ages it was a period of time where there is no longer war to stop human development. It was a time where people were allowed to make observation, experiment and exploded new ideas. Leonardo da Vinci is known as the man of the Renaissance because of his characteristic that makes him the true Renaissance Man. Leonardo di Vinci was truly a genius, Leonardo did not go to school he was self taught. As a young boy Da Vinci was curious about the world was always observing things around him and from his curiosity he was able to discover aerodynamic and invent flying machines. Even though Leonardo he not experiment with all of his invention but he was capable of taking his ideas to the next step along with applying the idea that one day mankind would be able to fly up high in the sky. These characteristic that the Renaissance Man possess allowed him to take a risk while he was alive which made his ideas and theory still alive till this day.

War Is Over

If you Give Peace a Chance

Give Peace a Chance
- John Lennon

Ev'rybody's talkin' 'bout
Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism
This-ism, that-ism, ism ism ism
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance

(C'mon)
Ev'rybody's talkin' 'bout
Minister, Sinister, Banisters and Canisters,
Bishops, Fishops, Rabbis, and Pop Eyes, Bye bye, Bye byes
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance

(Let me tell you now)

Ev'rybody's talkin' 'bout
Revolution, Evolution, Masturbation, Flagellation, Regulation,
Integrations, mediations, United Nations, congratulations
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance

Ev'rybody's talkin' 'bout

John and Yoko, Timmy Leary, Rosemary,
Tommy Smothers, Bobby Dylan, Tommy Cooper,
Derek Taylor, Norman Mailer, Alan Ginsberg, Hare Krishna
Hare Hare Krishna

All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance
(Repeat 'til the tape runs out)

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we had a world with no one at war, “Peace” can you imaging this? I can and John Lennon believed it too. Being a famous musician whose music promoted peace he influenced millions with his strong lyrics “ All we are saying is give peace a chance.” There is no point of wasting time talking about what we can do and not acting on it. We all need to get involved and raise awareness about peace. Even today long after his death Lennon’s music is still alive and continues to promote world peace.