Raphael's The School of Athens
Plato & Aristotle as central figures in Raphael's The School of Athens (1510) Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican Museum |
"From the gods a gift to the human race:
thus I reckon the gift of seeing the One
in the many and the many in the One."
— Plato, Philebus, 16d
Four Ways to Look at a Painting
| Dante's 4 Levels |
Carl Gustav Jung's 4 Psychic Functions |
Raphael's Painting |
| Literal | Sensation | Plato & Aristotle |
| Moral | Feeling | Timaeus & Ethics |
| Allegorical | Thinking | Heaven & Earth |
| Anagogical | Intuition | One & Many |
