Art and Music day!

I love Fridays! Friday is Art, Music and Nature study days. With Exception of Math, Copywork, Piano, French and Latin, all other academics are put aside to study life from the artists viewpoint. Today we will be studying paintings by Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520)

-Italian Renaissance

Facts:
The Vision of a Knight or The Dream of Scipio or Allegory is a small egg tempera painting on poplar by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael, finished in 1504. It is in the National Gallery in London. It probably formed a pair with the Three Graces panel, also 17 cm square, now in the Château de Chantilly museum.


The theme is controversial. Some authorities intend the sleeping knight to represent the Roman general Scipio Africanus (236 - 184 BC) who was dreaming to choose between Virtue (behind whom is a steep and rocky path) and Pleasure (in looser robes). However, the two feminine figures are not presented as contestants. They may represent the ideal attributes of the knight: the book, sword and flower which they hold suggest the ideals of scholar, soldier and lover which a knight should combine.

Composer: 20th Century British:

Ralph Vaughan Williams- Symphony 1 or Sea Symphony- 2nd Movement, On the Beach at night

Listen HERE.

Hymn to the Sea by Williams, (I remember this from Titanic), listen HERE