Week 4 Responses

Week 4 Response

This painting is called “The School of Athens”, Raphael. This is a symbol of the Renaissance as a fusion of Arts, Philosophy, and Science. This architecture is mostly symmetrical and there are shapes like rectangles, semicircles inside this image. This is a very clear symbol of the architecture during and after the Renaissance. Aristotle and Plato stands at two sides in the image, arguing. This shows another key term of Renaissance as Knowledge. We can see the parts of mathematics including the sense of space and the balance of the field.

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