Week 4 Responses

Week 4 Response

This painting is of the School of Athens by Raphael, which depicts the Vatican City. The image resonates with the architectural ideals of the renaissance because of how proportional and balanced the architecture is. Some of the world’s most renowned mathematicians and philosophers were present in the photo, which signifies that the beauty can be appreciated through the math and science present in the architecture. In keeping with Vitruvius’s ideas it seems as if you were to cut this building in half you would have two identical halves, which is in line with principles of architecture during the high Renaissance period. 

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