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"The artist who uses the same energy and genius that Homer and Isaiah had will find that he not only lives in the same palace of art as Homer and Isaiah, but lives in it at the same time." |
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This mural painting belongs to a complete iconographical program, (in this room: Philosophy, one the Four Moral Powers), that glorified and propagandized the reign of Pope Julius II, (who had also commissioned Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel). Raphael represented sages from different times and places in the past (Socrates, Zoroaster, Plato, Aristotle, Averroës, Pythagoras) in the guises of artists and writers of his own day, (Leonardo, Michelangelo, Bramante, Castiglione), in a space of a projected future (Bramante's design for St. Peter's). Where is time in the palace of art? Are new ideas just translations of the old ones? Are ideas ever new or old? Is it just that we ourselves are either new or old? |
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| Reliquary ©Scott Bodenheimer, September 12, 1997, revised November 26, 2003,d | ||||
