| 3pm Saturday 31 May 2025 | in Brunswick | Speakers: Martin Leckey & John Bigelow | Bookings Essential [BOOKED OUT] | Donations Accepted | UPDATE: WATCH RECORDING |
Raphael represented ancient Greek cosmology in one of the most famous paintings of the High Renaissance at the Vatican in Rome. We show how Raphael uses “the School of Athens” and other paintings to represent the world soul, as described in Plato’s Timaeus, which is structured around a series of Pythagorean ratios. Some of these ratios were adopted as ideals in Renaissance music, literature, art, and architecture. Raphael aspires, by embodying these ratios in these memorable images, to bridge the divide between the material and the divine, and to help to bring about a harmonious relationship between the microcosm and the macrocosm, Pagan and Christian beliefs, science and the arts. With the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, the pendulum swung back to a narrower vision of Christianity. In many ways, the turn away from Raphael’s Platonic Vision signals a lost opportunity for a more tolerant and free-thinking future. UPDATE: WATCH RECORDING IN THE SALONS PLAYLIST]
Martin Leckey is an Honorary Fellow in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne.
John Bigelow is an Emeritus Professor at Monash University.
Past and present students, their family and friends, are all welcome. Bookings Essential. [BOOKED OUT]
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