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LEONARDO DA VInci
LEONARDO DA VInci
•is a fresco by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. It was painted between 1509
and 1511 as a part of Raphael's commission to decorate the rooms now known as
the Stanze di Raffaello.
•The School of Athens was the third painting Raphael completed after Disputa
(representing theology) and Parnassus (representing literature). It's positioned
facing Disputa and symbolizes philosophy, setting up a contrast between religious
and lay beliefs.
•Raphael’s fresco The School of Athens has come to symbolize the marriage of art,
philosophy, and science that was a hallmark of the Italian Renaissance. Painted
between 1509 and 1511, it is located in the first of the four rooms designed by
Raphael, the Stanza della Segnatura.
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• Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino. (March 28 or April 6, 1483 –
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April 6, 1520) known as Raphael was an Italian painter and
architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for
its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual
achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur.
Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he
forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.