Western Civilization I / Unit 13 WC1 1229 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Giotto Before and Raphael After
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The idea
Giotto, about thirteen hundred, painted figures with weight and feeling before perspective existed, the witness's forerunner. Raphael, fourteen eighty-three to fifteen twenty, painted the School of Athens for Julius II, Plato and Aristotle among the ancients: the High Renaissance's balance.
In practice
Three generations: Giotto, Brunelleschi's circle, Raphael.
Where people slip
Both names rest on the witness texts. The anchor omits them.
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