The School of Athens, “Who is Who?” Puzzle

Michael Lahanas

Η Φιλοσοφική Σχολή της Αθήνας του Ραφαήλ Σάντσιο

Part 2

Raffaels Schule von Athen. Wer ist wer?

30 (The Consolation of Philosophy) written when he was in prison before his execution. Due to his knowledge of Greek he translated various astronomical and mathematical Greek texts which were important for the advance of Science in Europe.

Some say it is Empedocles, Zeno, Archytas of Tarentum, Iamblichus. But maybe also Anaximander (611 - 547 BC) (there are some similarities of this image with a sculpture of (Επίκουρος ο Σάμιος) (342-271 BC)

Epicurus (c. 342-271 BC) founded the Garden, a combination of philosophical community and school. The residents of the Garden put Epicurus' teachings into practice. "this man wears a wreath of oak leaves, the emblem of Pope Julius, to whose name Raphael dedicated the work signifying the golden age of this pontiff, his benefactor .(Some say that he is surrounded by a young and old man representing those who seriously followed his teachings.

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36 Zeno of Citium (c. 333- c. 262 BC)


(Αλκιβιάδης ) (c. 450 BC- 404 BC)

(Apollo and the Muses) fresco. Parnassus, The Disputa, The Cardinal Virtues and the School of Athens are the four frescoes he produced for the Vatican Stanza della Segnatura.The Meaning of the Camaieus under Raphael's Parnassus. In Mh. f. Kunstw. VIII, 1915, pp. 10-16 (5 figs.), G. J. HOOGEWERFP reviews the question of the interpretation of the two paintings en grisaille under the Parnassus of Raphael (Figs. 4 and 5) and concludes that the view of Bartsch, repeated by Wolfflin, is the only tenable one. The left camaieu represents Alexander having his copy of the Iliad deposited in the coffer of Darius; the right, Augus

43

Aeschines (c.390- 322/314? BC), son of Atrometus, Orator, with Socrates (what is he expressing with his hands?).

45 provides a modern version of Raphael's School of Athens, not of philosophers but film stars: Charlie Chaplin, John Wayne, Marlene Dietrich, James Dean, The Marx Brothers, Marylin Monroe, Elvis Presley, Woody Allen, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Marlon Brando, Donald Duck, Fred Astaire, “ET”, “Pretty Woman” and many others.