The School of Athens, Raphael | Art Analysis (Video Essay)

Here, I analyse the School of Athens. Raphael's masterpiece. The context is everything, and the fact that the School of Athens formed part of the Pope's private library, and in fact was one of four frescos in the room gives us much more to unpick about its meaning and inspirations.
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[@JayaSaputra]

I love Renaissance art.... Lovely..

[@Fit_Philosopher]

this was amazing. you did absolute justice to this work of art and you carry the name of the greats in truth!

[@BotBrendan]

I watched this video to help with an AP Euro essay and damn I love this stuff. I think it is so interesting how beautiful artwork can be but still, represent education, architecture, and other intellectual arts.

[@stevenleslie8557]

Raphael painted himself in the right hand side. He also painted his bitter rival Michelangelo in the foreground, alone and brooding. Both of these men deserve to be in this painting.

[@VLADBANNEDME-ve9ko]

HOW COULD THAT NOT HAVE BEEN IN THIS VID'S ANALYSIS??

[@MijoShrek]

Plato is drawn as none other than Raphael's idol. Leonardo Davinci, a close up into his face and you see it clearly as his famous facial drawings we have of him. He points upwards also as a known signature in many of Da Vinci paintings. See: John the Baptist. Michelangelo also is portrayed as Hiraclitus and is in a melancholy pose. Which was viewed as being deep thinker in high Renaissance. Raphael rounds out the Renaissance Holy Trinity. Right where he deserves to be. As equals.

[@pedrop3082]

“Some many of the intellectuals here were, at one point pr another branded as heretics” *Camera focusess Diogenes*

[@flamencoprof]

Don't mention Diogenes.

[@whynochips3887]

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[@flamencoprof]

@@whynochips3887 Just a quiet joke. Look him up. He wouldn't have been seen dead in a situation as depicted, and he wouldn't have cared at all about any of the others there. "I pissed on the man who called me a dog. Why was he so surprised?" Diogenes

[@arthurjulius7359]

Very good video essay. This was really enlightening & very well storied!

[@vroomvroom12093]

found this video to learn about the use your illusion albums' covers and was well informed by it. thank you so much, fantasic video

[@Snowblind3699]

Same here! 😂🤘🏻✌🏻

[@ephsee8669]

Bro I need more of these videos

[@fineartist7710]

...Bravo!...Excellent Analysis!...I have a reproduction of this painting hanging in the my art studio-school, where I teach and lecture to adult professionals interested in learning the history science, craft, philosophy and metaphysics of Art...........I am now a subscriber.

[@spanixtanspanixtan8757]

A must. I needed a review on this painting. Also there were some unknown issues: regarding the Cardinal Della Riviere and his identification with Julius Caesar; the symbols of Roman architecture over the Greek... Well, my analyses are not devoted to these typical key masterpieces but to less reviewed ones.

[@Karentulla]

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[@TheCogito]

Thank you! And welcome, please do share my channel.

[@memememes.]

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[@Tapshanov]

Sorry for my ignorance. But is there a name for this particular branch of Renaissance, where there are many subjects, all of them minding their own business, scattered around the painting, something that Raphael was doing? Is it just called High Renaissance, or there is a different terminology. I am trying to create similar compositions in my photography, but set up. Thanks

[@BirdsAndWhales]

More of a compositional style than "branch of Renaissance." Try Renaissance group paintings?

[@priyachandrasekar1152]

Also Leonardo Da Vinci was portrayed as Plato.

[@brubafc]

I love your observations

[@daniellescott3198]

Hello Bruna ☺

[@gereraltbone12346]

Thank you for writing my humanities essay. Mrs Walker if you see this and notice every bit of information I used in my essay is from this video. Mind ya buisness

[@nathanbeer3338]

I've noticed on the bow above the figures of the painting (not sure exactly what it's called) there are repeated patterns of yellow swastika which I think was a symbol of fortune in ancient Greece.

[@NoOne-ky1er]

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[@n3rds3y3vi3w]

don't forget about raphael himself on the far right peeking out behind the guy in white.

[@sonamtipotas8564]

3:52 the picture is from Knossos, belonging to minoan civilization of the island of Crete.It is greek but not the same architecture as Athens used to have in when Plato was alive.Also it is a different civilisation in a different time, with different people.

[@unidentifiedflying2471]

exactly what i thought. and i,m not even greek! ahahah i,m brazilian! and i taught greek to myself!

[@sonamtipotas8564]

@@unidentifiedflying2471 Well done my friend!

[@EngGear]

Beautiful video

[@partlyironic]

This series and the way its presented like a series of letters reminds me of Sophie’s World. Love it.

[@TheAlps36]

I would really love someone to paint a modern interpretation of this - maybe the scientists at the Solvay conference?

[@junesilvermanb2979]

Solvay Conference wikipedia.org/wiki/Solvay_Conference

[@stevenleslie8557]

It took hundreds of years for most of these men to be recognized as geniuses and immortalized in a Raphael painting. A modern painting with more contemporary figures would be controversial.

[@abibnoor]

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[@cosminblk8359]

What is the background music ? It sounds very beautiful

[@a101-j9i]

I know this was 6 months ago so you probably don't want this anymore but just in case- it's Bach- Air

[@divyabiyani5731]

Can someone tell me whats the music playing in the background. Its heavenly

[@frankschmitzer5824]

Wonderful. Thank you sincerely.

[@AceDeclan]

I’ve been to the Vatican recently but missed this? Is it open to tourists?

[@ack_attack]

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[@tejaldole2001]

This is really a good video wow i liked it alot Thank you so much for making this video

[@thatactivechic]

I found Raphael in the painting. And what a painting this is my word. I’m wanting to get a poster of it in my room so bad. The artist has, I’m guessing, placed himself on the right side when looking at the painting but it’s the left in person… on the bottom between two older mean conversing about the earth and heavens or planets nonetheless. Black Hair. And theirs only three people looking forward. The rest are preoccupied drawn idealising and gazing upon the two philosophers.

Good work and better Art lesson!

[@TheCogito]

Thank you!

I suggest you to do a video essay about "Melancholie" by Dürer. I am looking for information about its meaning for a video Art analysis that I want to do...

[@BelaNada813]

You didn’t even mention Hypatia.

[@АнасТас-г9р]

what music is on the background?

[@fraouimadjid1886]

js bach air

[@akemi_k]

This is a great and helpful video! Thank you so much for it!

[@thinginground5179]

I really like the music

[@dionysius1321]

What about Raphael in the background???

[@abeopperman3910]

Great commentary!

[@cilmaralion4258]

Fantastic! Thank you

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[@imanmujahid9542]

Very beautiful!

[@heidib.4089]

Perfect - thank you so much.

[@diegobis2048]

what is the backing track?

[@isaacgazmararian4288]

Great video! Monet's Water Lilies next?

[@TheCogito]

Maybe soon - the Water Lilies are lovely.

[@memememes.]

Mmm good idea

[@pedripolis]

What about Hypatia staring directly to Raphael/the viewer ??? (White cloaked woman in the bottom left, next to Parmenides)

[@tsak4066]

I was actually curious about this as well. Also about the figure on the right side of the painting looking directly to the viewer. The right figure I'm talking about is raphael himself and the one you are talking about originally was hypatia but changed because of the pope. So if you haven't find the answer and you are still curious here is the link that you can find information about each character of the painting: www.hellenicaworld.com/Greece/Science/en/SchoolAthens.html

[@pedripolis]

@@tsak4066 Thank you !!!

[@tsak4066]

haha no problem

[@Jammin6796]

not a single mention of Michael Angelo on the stairs front left.... Meh...

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❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ Thank you so much !

[@stefaniasoutoglou5623]

With Greek subtitles is there?

[@dylankrivoshein8651]

This is awesome

[@eskiemax5133]

what did he say in the opening? Dear who?

[@thechosenone5644]

Diogenes on the steps is hilarious

[@imogencemfer4241]

Great video, learned a lot, love Aristotle!!

[@lilianaprina5991]

Love it thank you...

[@mkam5060]

Loved it 😍

[@TheCogito]

Thank you 🙂

[@cookieoutrage]

Ngl kinda interesting how Hypatia is the only one looking towards the audience,and also the only woman there.

[@ΜιχαληςΤσιπουνης]

Great video!

[@TheCogito]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@hameedansha9754]

Rennaissance in arts

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Luffy and Roger Up Pose ☝️

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👏👏👏Excelente!!

[@supercrunch5514]

And then, there's Picasso

[@johnparven6187]

Renaisance haha, found another word British and Americans pronounce differently lol. Schedule to me is the strangest word difference to me onbhow we pronlunce words

[@coyotebones1131]

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[@flamencoprof]

I have a hard time calling this Art. It seems to me the "artist" is just an illustrator of someone's (the patron's) propaganda. I see it as not much different to that old Soviet "triumph of the workers" imagery, and with as little artistic content. Yes, I know, some great art has been commissioned, but..

[@damncidd]

Well art is subjective. Like what you like. 👍

[@masterjunky863]

Com'era grande l'Italia...

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[@sivaramprasadmoturu2272]

very interesting analysis.

[@thatactivechic]

Who are the women looking forward. One looks like me.

[@JosephElfassi]

"The Romans preferred the arch"

[@xcaluhbration]

I only came here to Tessellate.

[@oriakumia2526]

WTF??????????????????????????????

[@Hxzaifaaa]

Bro forgot Ibn Rushd!!!!!! And the fat guy in the blue is NOT Epicurus!

[@64dethray]

Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion l & ll

[@MyRahul70]

Hmmm..

[@nevilleborg5031]

There you go. Someone said it!

[@Snowblind3699]

😂😂🤘🏻

[@bernardramirez1818]

👀

[@roberthales2579]

RAPHAEL AMUN RA

[@iliasissmaili4370]

Nowadays we draw some squares ans call it art .. jeez

[@maxasaurus3008]

Some people might, non-objective abstract is garbage imo.

[@trollala_555]

These days we type in words and we call it art

[@philippesenechal3478]

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[@camilosatiro9126]

Good artist better than michelangelo