Raphael, School of Athens From Khan Academy The School of Athens represents all the greatest mathematicians, philosophers and scientists from classical antiquity gathered together sharing their ideas and learning from each other. These figures all lived at different times, but here they are gathered together under one roof. Raphael, School of Athens , 1509-1511, fresco (Stanza della Segnatura, Palazzi Pontifici, Vatican) The two thinkers in the very center, Aristotle (on the right) and Plato (on the left, pointing up) have been enormously important to Western thinking generally, and in different ways, their different philosophies were incoporated into Christianity. Raphael, detail of Plato and Aristotle, School of Athens , 1509-1511, fresco (Stanza della Segnatura, Palazzi Pontifici, Vatican) Plato points up because in his philosophy the changing world that we see around us is just a shadow of a higher, truer reality that is eternal and unchanging (and ...
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