Raphael, School of Athens, fresco, 1509-1511 (Stanza della Segnatura, Papal Palace, Vatican) Speakers: Dr. Steven Zucker, Dr. Beth Harris. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
I was handed the key to this room and got to unlock the door not long ago, early in the morning on a special tour with just a few of us and the keepers of the keys. I lingered and had the room to myself. Imagine the solitude with these magnificent works of art in the silence of early dawn; think about the centuries and the history these rooms have seen. It was overwhelming.
I love these videos. I'd wish there would be one for every single painting in art history. Those videos belong to the most entertaining ones on the youtube platform. Thank you so much!
I love watching these videos. I wish they were available when I taught AP Art History ! Now that I have retired these videos refresh my memories. Thank you !
Excellent knowledgeable commentary of each part of the frescoes . The great painter Raphael with his exemplary paintings. A nice treat thanks loved watching it.
Moved me to tears with the sheer in-depth beauty paired with my admiration for those in this painting. This explanation teleported me to memory in my blood cells written by a ancient eye witness relative.
Yes, wonderful videos, Algrim. As a former philosophy professor I would explain "The School of Athens" to my Introduction to Philosophy students. Now in the age of multimedia instruction (I did that for an Ethics course for Nurses) I used multimedia movies linked to my textbook Ethics at the Movies..... But this Kahn Academy video explains the School of Athens so well, I could have used it.
This takes me right back to my study of art history in '71 - '72..... I specialised in the Italian Renaissance for 'A' Level..... Our teacher was the brilliant late Ron Parkinson (V&A) ... time travel!
Wait a minute. Does this mean Raphael is friend of & with Leonardo & Micheangelo? That sounds cool just like there once 3 Greeks philosophical teachers as 1 gang.
@@men_del12 yup, da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael were contemporaries. Michelangelo could be a pretty difficult and competitive person and didn't get on well with them. But these three were considered the "holy trinity" of artists in those days.
this was amazing. i loved this! just got a huge canvas of the school of athens in my room from amazon. best decision ever. amazing to learn some of the symbology and history of it.
It would be interesting to bring into the conversation the cartoon that is in the museum in Milan for the fresco, which is in some ways even more powerful than the fresco. It shows Raphael's process of developing the overall pictorial concept, and is a fascinating work, feeling as contemporary as anything hanging in galleries today.
A good dissication of the work from Cezzane, what is good to have a look at are the divisions of ideas within the spheres of knowledge and the way they are represented. As a thinker i find it amusing to look at those "Black and White"(clear separation) concepts.
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I see that Michaelangelo surpass Raphael in how seamless the subjects are in composition with each other that the paint looks like it's painted in one session. How amazing these artists are
Few people, books, and quiet... Pre-heaven? 😍 The four branches of human knowledge are interesting choices. I would've taken out poetry and thrown in Psychology, but what do I know? lol. I love the allegorical representation of poetry and Aristotle's pose / foreshortened hand. Such a simple, yet powerful gesture. It's great that this meeting of great minds was celebrated this way.
So, you're telling me that we're sleeping on Raphael taking the most badass selfie of all human history....give that man an instagram caption right now...
Yes, I've read in a Renaissance handbook that Da Vinci was Raphael's inspiration for Plato, apart from Da Vinci's other worldly way of thinking, the iconic hand pointing upward is an allusion to Da Vinci's unusual panting of hands (see the painting St. John the Baptist and sketch Holy Family with St. John) encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT2CYTtA2pl-D7i7fUpQXe4U7CYS2-_OFnKU7a4dfgP9CB99dMeGg phillipkay.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/1-mary-and-anne-jesus-and-john.jpg
Plato points to an intermediate realm of 'Forms' between man and the 'Form of the Good'. This (rather than Aristotle's 'Great Chain of Being') is the pattern of the 'Disputa' where 1. the realm of Forms becomes the Christian 'cloud of witnesses' [Heb12v1] - and 2. the Form of the Good is identified as the realm of God the Father.
I've watched many videos on the total and various fresco of the work and it's, not surprisingly, a masterpiece. The school of Athens is probably most peoples favorite for a lot of reasons. It's funny b/c your average person will always know Di Vinci and Michelangelo but not many will know Raphael, who is in some opinions, better then the other 2. Michelangelo didn't produce many works b/c his took so long and Di Vinci dabbled in Alchemy for many years when being 'kept' by the Medici's. A Truly great Artist of the Highest Order.
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Plato and Aristotle have just come from a tennis match and you can see that they are in dispute about a key point which Aristotle believes to have been "in" while Plato is calling it "out". They must have bet something on the outcome.
Drawing from ancient pagan philosophers was not unique to Renaissance in Catholicism. Catholic tradition had at that time a long history of drawing influences from ancient pagan philosophers, especially from Plato (popularized by St. Augustine) and Aristotle (popularized by St. Thomas Aquinas). Especially during the Middle Ages when scholasticism was at the rise with it's concept of combining faith and reason. St. Thomas Aquinas calls Aristotle "The Philosopher" and didn't hesitate to openly draw some of his ideas not just from numerous Christian thinkers, but also from pagan, Jewish (Maimonides) or Muslim (Avicenna, Averroes) philosophers.
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