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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