How Did Stanza Della Segnatura Influence The School Of Athens

Raphael, along with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vince, is considered amongst the masters of High Renaissance because he contributed largely to this era. With time, not only did his insight mature psychologically but he also mastered in the physical representation. His work, Stanza Della Segnatura has been influenced by Michelangelo’s work in Sistine Chapel. It is one of Raphels’s very famous and renowned works.
One of the themes of Stanza Della Segnatura, the ‘School of Athens’, has been given the most importance than the work as a whole. School of Athens is the depiction of Raphael’s moods which reflects his beliefs and this is communicated by the artist’s placement of figures in the work, such as Plato and Aristotle standing right at the center in this case, emphasizing how important their theories were with their gestures and positioning. This is like Leonardo’s Last Supper where he has adopted a similar approach of communicating his beliefs through the placement of figures in his work.
From the centre, all the figures are arranged such thinkers from Plato’s school of thought are placed to the left side and those from Aristotle’s are placed in the right side of the work. If noticed carefully, we can also see that the groups of figures are arranged in an ellipse from the centre, with an opening in the foreground. The one point perspective directs the viewer’s eyes to the book, Timaeus, in Plato’s hand, stressing its importance. This work by Raphael has not only catered to the Platonists and Aristotelians, but has also reconciled paganism and