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School of Athens

Answer number 1:

In the centre of the composition Leonardo da Vinci as Plato (of whose philosophy it has been said: All that came after are merely footnotes)

Raphael's Leonardo/Plato

Raffaello's Leonardo/Plato.

 

Leonardo self-portrait

A self portrait by Leonardo

 

Answer number 2:

The figure of Michelangelo Buonarotti as Heraclitus was not in the original cartoon & is said to have been added after Raffaello snuck into the Sistine chapel one night to see Michelangelo's progress on the ceiling. He was so awed by the sculptor's work he added the figure to the foreground in homage to the maestro.

Raphael's Michelangelo/Heraclitus

Raffaello's Michelangelo/Heraclitus



Drawn portrait of Michelangelo

A drawn portrait in profile of Michelangelo.

Answer number 3:

Raffaello Sanzio

He pictures himself modestly in the background though he chooses the legendary painter Apelles (4thC BC) as his avatar. Apelles was Alexander Magno's 'court' painter, he was remembered by Pliny the Elder as unsurpassed in talent before or after. Homage or arrogance?!

 

 

 

Raffaello's self portrait as Appeles

Raffaello's self-portrait as Apelles is easy to spot because it looks directly at the viewer, this is common to most self-portraits because they are painted looking into a mirror.

 

Rafaello self portrait

Attributed by some to Raffaello as a
self-portrait.

Answer number 4:

Bramante D'Urbino, The greatest architect of the high Rennaisance as Euclid, arguably the greatest mathematician of ancient Greece.

Raffaello's Bramante as Euclid

Bramante is pictured leaning over a slate surrounded by the admiration of the younger generation.

 

Drawing of Bramante D'Urbino

A less flattering portrait of the master architect!

Numbered fresco

 

Numbers 10, 11, 14 & 17 above...
(1)
Zeno of Citium
Zeno of Citium, the stoic
(2)
Epicurus
Epicurus

(4 & 5)
Averroes & Pythagoras
Averroes or Abul Walid, the Al-Andalus philosopher, physician & mathematician from Cordoba looking over the shoulder of Pythagoras as the latter writes.

(6 & 8)
Alexander Magno & Xenophon
Alexander Magno & Xenophon the historian of his times & chronicler of Socrates

(7)
Rovere, Hypatia & Parmenides
Francesco Maria I della Rovere
or Hypatia of Alexandria and Parmenides

(7)
Parmenides
Parmenides

(9)
Socrates
Socrates
(12)
Aristotle
Aristotle
(13)
Diogenes
Diogenes
(15, 16, 17)
Zoroaster, Ptolemy & Protogenes
Zoroaster, Ptolemy & Protogenes (& Raffaello as Apelles, see above)

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