RaphaelSanzio, (Raffeallo)1483-1520

The Prince of Painters

Raphael•Urbino, Italy•Father described as a painter, “of no great merit”•Introduced to Humanism at 11 years of age!•Studied in Perugia with Peitro Perugino.•Moved to Florence •Studied with the masters perfecting:•Human anatomy•Unity of composition•Renaissance Classicism

Raphael, Sistine Madonna, 1513-1514

Raphael, Portrait of Giuliano della Rovere, Pope Julius II, Rome1511-1512,

Raphael, Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican, Rome, Fresco lunettes, Parnassus and The School of Athens, 1510-1511, In Situ

In situ

Raphael, School of Athens, Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican, Rome, Fresco in the left lunette, Patron Pope Julius II, 1510-1511

Plato 427-327

BCE

Aristotle384-322

BCE

Pythagorascalculates arithmetic. While students of all ages and gender leer over his shoulder.

Diogenes of Sinope (412-323 BC), cynic philosopher

Zoraster the ancient Greek astronomer listens to Ptolemy, who codified the Greek geocentric view of the universe, while Raphael and Sodoma gaze onward.

Euclid discusses geometric diagrams

Pythagorascalculates arithmetic. While students of all ages and gender leer over his shoulder.

Zoraster the ancient Greek astronomer listens to Ptolemy, who codified the Greek geocentric view of the universe, while Raphael and Sodoma gaze onward.

Euclid discusses geometric diagrams

Heraclitus represents a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who scorned civil society and popular thought.He exemplifies the features of Michelangelo.

Music , Math and Grammar are depicted in the foregroundwhile Rhetoric and Dialect argue behind them.

Raphael, Stanza della Segnatura, Disputa, 1510-1511, Vatican, Rome, Patron Pope Julius II

RaphaelThe Alba Madonna, c. 1510

Raphael, Madonna of the Meadow., Rome, 1505 or 1506