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.
