Raphael




 * Readings:**
 * [|Art Hum reader]-- Read the Alberti selections from "On Painting", as well as Vasari on "The Life of Raphael"
 * [|What is a Portrait?] Chapter 1 of Shearer West's Portraiture (2004).


 * Other resource:**
 * [|Guide to some basic Christian Iconography]


 * Images to know:**
 * [|Raphael - Images to know]
 * [|Handout]

> Full [|Powerpoint] for perspective questions
 * Random related info:**
 * Who was Diogenes, the philosopher sprawled on the steps of the School of Athens? One of the [|original fans of MIA's gesture] in the Superbowl halftime show.
 * Who are those people in the School of Athens? Find out at [|this website]
 * [|Info] on the copy of the Mona Lisa newly discovered at the Prado Museum, thought to be by Da Vinci's pupil, perhaps painted at the same time as the original -- and compare the two [|here]

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