Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Parnassus, Raphael


Title: Parnassus
Artist: Raphael
Location: Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican Palace, Rome
Date: 1508 - 11

  • personifies poetry
  • contemporary + ancient cultures meet on parnassus
  • Parnassus is an ancient mountain in Greece
    where Appollo and the muses provide inspiration
  • Natural setting, but a fictional space is still created - Look at Sappho's feet
  • contemporary figures - Dante (Divine Comedy) depicted with Virgil ( link of past and present)
  • Petrarch - starting figure of humanism
  • contrapposto near frame shows Michelangelo's influence on Raphael

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