My Visit To Florence: My Trip To Rome And Florence

“A man paints with his brains and not with his hands” Michelangelo Buonarroti. Earlier this summer in June, I went with my family to Rome and Florence and was fortunate enough to visit several breathtaking museums along the way. Rome is most famous for numerous things such as architecture from arches, domes and vaults, which can be seen in almost every historic building, to painters from Michelangelo to Bernini and Raphael. I was blessed to see artwork done by each individual. My overall trip was two weeks, which gave me plenty of time to enjoy most aspects of Rome and Florence.

My journey of museums hoping start at a Chapel. I was one of the five million people to visit the Sistine Chapel this year, and I understand why it is so popular.

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is mostly admired for his clarity of form, ease of compositing, and visual achievement of the ideal human. Many of Raphael work are found in the Vatican Palace, which is right next to the Sistine Chapels, most of the frescoed, are in Raphael Rooms, which is the central, and the largest works of his career. The School of Athens, the title is actually a later invention, this magnificent painting was design as a tribute to the achievements of earthy learning. At the heart of the composition stand Plato and Aristotle, the most celebrated of all the Greek sages. Plato holds a copy of his Timaeus and points upward, to signify his preoccupation with celestial matters. His companion and pupil, meanwhile, also carries one of his on works, the Ethnics, and gestures before him, to demonstrate his concern for the material world. Many believe that Plato is generally regarded to be likeness of Leonardo da Vinci. Around these two philosophers, other master explains their theories to eager students. On the left you see Socrates present an argument to a small group of listens, counting off the points on his fingers. Below him, Pythagoras demonstrates one of his mathematical theories. In the center, the old man sprawled on the stairs is Diogenes the Cynic, while the mathematicians Euclid and Ptolemy can be seen on the far right. Euclid, who reaches down to a slate with a pair of dividers as he explains the principles of geometry to those gathered around him, but if you look right behind him, there is a self-portrait of Raphael among the youthful figures. Joining these figures are some of Raphael’s own contemporaries. Such as the man in the middle looking at his book, some say is Michelangelo, if you close enough you will realize that no one is making eye contact or talking to