Monday, November 23, 2009

The School of Athens

"The School of Athens" represents the action being done in the school mentioned. The world gains more knowledge by sharing information, communicate, and passing down knowledge. As the action shows on the fresco, teachers are shown showing things with a black boards and books, and some studied about the architecture of the school probably to get more ideas to improve the architecture style of the country and to the world. This fresco is also representing the architectural style in the renaissance which Raphael had probably done it purposely to show the architecture in the time. The statue of Athena and Apollo was shown on both side of the fresco, that would probably represents their believe system in gods.





If I was in the painting "The School of Athens" I would be Aristotle, right on the center of the painting with Plato standing next beside him, not because he is the focal point, but because of his intelligence. He knew many more things about the world than other people. He had many interesting theories on things that are not noticeable, but still interesting to know such as physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics biology, and zoology. I think most of those topics weren't really useful on his time, but in our time it is, for example, we might have some technologies that need evidence from his theories, and I think that his thoughts were rare so it seems to be interesting to me and it is also good to know about it. Most of his experiments are to correct his theories, and also other people's theories about things, and it helps the world to gain more knowledge for the people to know and make more useful technologies as time goes on.