The School of Athens

High school (ages 12+)
Art & Creativity

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/the-school-of-athens

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the artwork type?Fresco painting
2. What is the artist?Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino)
3. Who painted The School of Athens and when was it made?Raphael painted it between 1509 and 1511.
4. Which famous thinkers can you see in the painting?You can see Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Pythagoras, Euclid or Archimedes, Averroes, and Hypatia, the only woman shown.

Fresco: A mural painting executed upon freshly laid, wet lime plaster, becoming an integral part of the wall.
Renaissance Humanism: An intellectual movement focused on classical antiquity, human potential, and worldly achievements.
Linear Perspective: A system for creating an illusion of depth on a flat surface by representing parallel lines converging at a vanishing point.
Epistemology: The branch of philosophy concerned with the theory of knowledge, its nature, scope, and justification.