School of Athens
by Jerzy Czyz
Title
School of Athens
Artist
Jerzy Czyz
Medium
Digital Art - Watercolor-mix
Description
Watercolor based on Raphael's fresco.
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.
Raphael was called to Rome toward the end of 1508 by Julius II at the suggestion of the architect Donato Bramante. At this time Raphael was little known in Rome, but the young man soon made a deep impression on the volatile Julius and the papal court, and his authority as a master grew day by day. His first task in the city was to paint a cycle of frescoes in a suite of medium-sized rooms (later called the Stanze di Raffaello [Raphael’s Rooms]) in the Vatican papal apartments in which Julius lived and worked. The Stanza della Segnatura (1508–11) and Stanza d’Eliodoro (1512–14) were decorated practically entirely by Raphael himself; the frescoes in the Stanza dell’Incendio (1514–17) and the Sala di Costantino (1517–25), though designed by Raphael, were largely executed by his numerous assistants and pupils.
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August 5th, 2023
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