The School of Athens The School of Athens is one of the most celebrated pieces of artwork from the age of the Renaissance. Painted by Raphael of Urbino from 1510 to 1512‚ the School of Athens is located in the Stanza della Segnatura at the Vatican Palace in Rome. The fresco was painted in the High Renaissance of Humanism and is the ideal embodiment of the classical spirit. Raphael of Urbino‚ or Raffaello Sanzio as he was known in his day‚ was born in 1483 in Urbino‚ Italy. His father was Giovanni
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School of Athens Raphael Santi was born in Urbino of 1483‚ he was a painter and architect of the Florentine school in the Italian High Renaissance. He studied under Pietro Perugino; but after leaving Perugino and moving to Florence he soon adopted the styles of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo (who were the artists who had established the High Renaissance style in Florence). During that time‚ Julius II requested decorations for the stanze (rooms) that Nicholas V had added to the building of the
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Rome. Raphael died in Rome on his 37th birthday‚ April 6‚ 1520. School of Athens Brief History: Raphael painted the School of Athens from-1510 1512. He was commissioned by pope Julius II‚ with the recommendation of Donato Bramante‚ the pope’s architect‚ to work in the Vatican. His first work the School of Athens was loved so much by the pope that he commissioned Raphael to paint the entire papal suite. In the School of Athens‚ philosophers and intellects from different time
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Was Sparta a better place than Athens? Spartans is known for its military training while Athens lives in world of luxury. Each state has its own good or bad and you can’t say something is better at everything than another one. First of all‚ children are mistreated in Sparta like going to military training at the age of seven and killing “weak” babies. Who said they didn’t have the potential to become the next Plato. In order to have a pure race Spartans started to kill the babies who look “weak”
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Athens and Sparta Athens and Sparta had many similarities and differences. They were both city-states in Greece‚ although they had very different characteristics. Athens and Sparta had different forms of government‚ economies‚ and interests. Athens was a lot more laid back and about the individual. They had artists and writers where Sparta had soldiers. Sparta was all about what was good for Sparta. Athens had one of the first Democracies. This was huge because before Democracy their
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ENG3U Fifth Business by Robertson Davies PART II: I Am Born Again Chapter Study Questions 1. Though he was in The Great War from 1915 to 1917‚ why didn’t Dunstan know much about it? 2. Why is Dunstan not proud of his “heroic act”? 3. Describe Dunstan’s miraculous revelation in chapter 2. 4. Describe Dunstan’s relationship with Diana. 5. What three milestones does Dunstan reach in chapter 5? 6. How does the story of Saint Dunstan resonate with Dunstan’s life? 7. In chapter 7‚ the
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Ayoub Laissouf Books‚ Ink‚ and Bindings Introduction The development of the Islamic book art and bookbinding was a result of the need of a written document of the divine revelations that the prophet Muhammad received through the angel Gabriel from 610 AD until 632. The followers of the prophet memorized Quran and transmitted it orally‚ and they jotted it down on bones‚ camel shoulder blades‚ stones and several other materials. However‚ with the swift expansion of the Islam to other regions
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The transformation of Athens from an aristocratic state to a democracy involved an economic shift‚ and a political transformation to maintain the built democratic culture. The monarchy was replaced by rule of nobles. Draco was the first recorded legislator of Athens. He published harsh law-codes that enforced and limited the punishment under the jurisdiction of Athens’ aristocratic court. One of the laws was one that distinguished the punishments for intentional and accidental murder. His law was
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What is the Golden Ratio The golden ration can occur anywhere. The golden proportion is the ratio of the shorter length to the longer length which equals the ratio of the longer length to the sum of both lengths. The golden ratio is a term used to describe proportioning in a piece. In a work of art or architecture‚ if one maintained a ratio of small elements to larger elements that was the same as the ratio of larger elements to the whole‚ the end result was pleasing to the eye. The ratio
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