Monday, June 28, 2010

The School of Athens

The School of Athens/Plato (Leonardo da Vinci) and Aristotle/Diogenes/Pythagoras/Euclid (Bramante), Zoroaster and Ptolemy, Apelles (self-portrait)/Heraclitus (Michelangelo)

If you got the descriptions, good for you. There were many rooms in the Vatican Museums that Rafael did, and to be honest after seeing them and seeing the Sistine Chapel, I am more impressed by Raphael's work than Michelangelo's. Raphael was always one of my favorite Renaissance artists anyway; with his good humor (not moody like Michelangelo up there) and supposed death by too much sex, why not?

1 comment:

Laurent said...

Raphael vs Michelangelo: 1 - 0