Only Raphael, infinitely superior in design, depth, power, & style to Michelangelo & all other painters; only Raphael could produce works of such scope as his Parnassus, School of Athens, & Triumph of Religion.pic.twitter.com/VbELJNOzIN
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Only Raphael, infinitely superior in design, depth, power, & style to Michelangelo & all other painters; only Raphael could produce works of such scope as his Parnassus, School of Athens, & Triumph of Religion.pic.twitter.com/VbELJNOzIN
Here we find, condensed & synthesized, Raphael's neoplatonician treatment of light as immanent divinity, as well as Perugino's understanding of the universe as a perfect mathematical plane supported by God's physical and metaphysical laws.pic.twitter.com/RzSFDuJt7E
Raphael's final masterpieces, among which we find the Sistine Madonna & his Stanze, would not be complete without the Triumph of Galatea, perhaps an answer to his "Triumph of Religion"?pic.twitter.com/EUJmVl5M1K
The same way, the School of Athens would be presumptuous without the Parnassus. All forms of excellence came to be celebrated in his works, for all were methods to attain the divine, the unending light which underlies, pervades and ends all of his compositions.pic.twitter.com/SIcNG6eUIz
Raphael's last, Raphael's final work after which he could not have lived, his Transfiguration, is an impossible painting, where light has given way to inextricable darkness.pic.twitter.com/NIa0OoIh9B
The lower part of the work shows a grieving family's bitter reproaches at the apostles' inability to cure their possessed son. A doctor goes through a large book to explain the ailment, other apostles discuss among themselves, others attempt to reason the family.pic.twitter.com/I1j1sswrQq
A woman, in the forefront, her hands over her heart, is overwhelmed by the absolute pity that is the only answer to meaningless human suffering. Another woman points to the child, her face betraying nothing but a cold indictment of life.pic.twitter.com/bFjexLEO2h
The father's mute rage, the mother's powerless despair, and the absurd, gratuitous torture inflicted on their child show how suffering, poor excuses, panic, and confusion are the true nature of this world engulfed in darkness. But a man points to something.pic.twitter.com/4ZkKkCer16
No one, engrossed as they are in the chaos of the world, bothers to look up. But up there on the hill, the skies have opened and a blinding, an infinite light spurts forth, instantly stunning its witnesses.pic.twitter.com/oKvyvHwMPk
But the theophany is too violent for this world, which has to trust, to depend on, a testimony, a promise; something it is not ready to do. An impassable chasm separates the divinity & its light from a hopeless, darkened world, & suffering lingers on, absurd & unexplained.pic.twitter.com/hQ78YCyz7b
The artistic and philosophical final word of Raphael was that of an unsurpassable separation, an absence, and how the true artist, the true philosopher, cast among this unceasing tragicomedy, nevertheless points up there, out there, to the all-ending light.
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