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Klappentext Examines Raphael's Stanza della Segnatura, exploring the meaning of the frescoes and accompanying decoration. Zusammenfassung Raphael's Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican Palace is considered the artist's most aesthetically perfect work. Joost-Gaugier's study is the first to examine its elements as an ensemble! exploring the meaning of the frescoes and accompanying decoration in light of recent studies into the intellectual world of High Renaissance Rome. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The Stanza della Segnatura and its painted program: the Library of Julius II; 2. The inventor of the program: ambiguities and uncertainties; 3. The Pope's Librarian, Tommaso Inghirami: portrait of a Humanist; 4. The ceiling: the birth of the disciplines and the triumph of their protector; 5. The geography of the Stanza della Segnatura; 6. The Disputa: a visionary theology and the exultation of Christianity; 7. The School of Athens: the great philosophical inventions; 8. The Parnassus: the universal language of Apollo; 9. The Jurisprudence: civil law, canon law, and divine law; 10. The pavement: the power of the Sacred Hebrew language; 11. Conclusion: the Humanism of the Stanza Della Segnatura; 12. Epilogue: Harmony is the most beautiful thing. Raphael's pythagoreanism.
