LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
AMERICAN RENAISSANCE UNIQUELY AMERICAN ART LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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A famous painting that shows that Greece and Roman ideas created the Renaissance.
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A school in Athens
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A school with only Athenians.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The School of Athens (Italian: Scuola di Atene) is a fresco by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. The fresco was painted between 1509 and 1511 as a part of Raphael’s commission to decorate the rooms now known as the Stanze di Raffaello, in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -School of Athens, fresco (1508–11) painted by artist Raphael, in the Stanza della Segnatura, a room in Pope Julius II’s private apartments in the Vatican. It is perhaps the most famous of all of Raphael’s paintings and one of the most significant artworks of the Renaissance.
Detailed explanation-4: -The incorporation of Classical motifs and models is therefore one of the distinguishing features of Italian Renaissance art. Raphael’s The School of Athens incorporates this humanistic interest in both its subject matter and its style, thereby reflecting the culture of the High Renaissance.