Legacy

Raphael was known as the genius of high Renaissance painters. Raphael influenced painters up to the 1900's. He made people think of personality when they looked at his paintings. Raphael put realistic emotions on to paintings. He changed the way people look at art by painting emotional themes and life. He was thought to be one of the most detailed painters of all portraitists. He also changed the way people thought of the Holy Madonna. Raphael changed the art world, he changed the way people look at art.

  An Inspiring Work

The School of Athens, or Scuola di Atene in Italian, is one of the most famous paintings by Raphael. It was painted between 1510 and 1511 as a part of Raphael's commission to decorate with frescoes the rooms now known as the Stanze di Raffaello, in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican. The Stanza della Segnatura was the first of the rooms to be decorated, and The School of Athens the second painting to be finished there, after La Disputà, on the opposite wall. The picture has long been seen as "Raphael's masterpiece and the perfect embodiment of the classical spirit of the High Renaissance.

 

Sources

http://egghead.psu.edu/~nlf2/Ren.art/raphael.html
http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/projects/renaissance/raphael.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_School_of_Athens

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