The #worldphilosophyday was born in 2002, and since 2005 it has been celebrated every third Thursday of November...
As we can see, the Cartoon is really large: 8 x 3 meters, but it is actually made up of 220 sheets. It is therefore a monumental but also very fragile work, precisely because it is composed of different parts...
There are also differences between the cartoon and the fresco. First of all, we see that at the center the figure normally identified as “the Thinker” is missing...
Raphael chose to depict some characters with the appearance of well-known personalities of the time...
It is interesting to see how Raphael chose to depict the images of the Philosophy not in a stereotyped or fixed way but with a great dynamic of looks and gestures.
Generally this is known as the Cartoon of the School of Athens, the fresco that is in the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican. Actually, at the beginning, this room was not thought up as the Stanza della Segnatura but it was to be the private library of Pope Julius II.
On the day of the 500th anniversary of Raphael's death, we offer you a video made with some shots of April 6, 2019.
Msgr. Rocca retraces the main events that involved the artwork throughout the centuries, from its arrival in the Ambrosiana, up to the present day!
A group of people interested in geometry surrpunds the character who is drawing a figure with a compass: he is Euclides...
Pythagoras is writing: the board on which the numerical ratios underlying the sounds are shown is missing from the Cartoon, graphic representation of the harmonic ratios, together with the sacred tetractys (clearly visible instead in the fresco in the Vatican).
Among the Pythagoreans there is a figure dressed in white: erroneously indicated by some as Hypatia, he is a young man gifted with virtue and beauty...
A video dedicated to the Cartoon, in which we retrace (in pills) the process of restoration of the work and the reanovation of the room, up to the inauguration!
Exactly one year ago the completely renovated Room of the Raphael Cartoon reopened to the public, a special day for the Ambrosiana and for Milan!
The Director of the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Msgr. Alberto Rocca, who explains us what a preparatory cartoon is and, more precisely, a "well-finished Cartoon".
Pinacoteca, rooms 2 and 3, exhibition included in the admission ticket to the museum
Recovery of the functionality of the balconies of the Sala Federiciana, Borromeo and della Rosa through the installation of lifelines
Guided tour of the masterpieces of the Pinacoteca, together with professional guides of our official partner AdArtem
