Raphael: The Most Transcendental Artist

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Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Victor Hugo, Mozart a few of the most transcendental artist in the history of the world. Many are the one trying to understand the meaning of their works, but only a few know the real way to interpret their master pieces. Nowadays, anyone can judge a work of art, but mostly the critics, people whose work is to know, explorer, and understand the artists’ works know how to perfectly do it. Through the history of mankind many of these painters, musicians, and writers have left works of art that are astonishing to the human eye, but many of the artist changed the way they did their jobs, due to personal problems, or political ones.
Before judging a master piece, people have to know the context in which one that piece was created. The intentions of the author, and the situations of the country he was living in; all these factor can change the way people understand art. Raphael, called the master in his time, left many sculptures, and paintings that are breath taking. The School of Athens, wonderful work by Raphael were he puts all the greatest minds in one place, but most of the people does not know who are all the faces in the painting, because they do not know the history of it.
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Some people judge his work as something unrealistic and old, but of course people without the minimum of knowledge about literature or doesn’t know the meaning and just try to feign they know.
In conclusion, people should inform a little bit about the political, personal, and history of the pieces of art they are going to judge, because the context of a painting can change the meaning of it from a moment to another. Also, judging without knowing can offend people who actually

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