Renaissance+and+Reformation+Science

depicting many of the intellectuals whose contributions to Greek philosophy, science, and religion are of significance to this day. Among those included in this romanticized view are Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Euclid. The subjects are portrayed as they would have appeared during the Renaissance, rather than during the Golden Age of Greece. || Leon Battista Alberti, who has been characterized as "the Renaissance man," was best known for his theoretical writings on art and architecture, which exercised a great influence over future theoretical and practical developments in both fields. ||
 * School of Athens || Leon Alberti ||
 * [[image:School_of_Aristotle_(raphael).jpg width="364" height="271"]] || [[image:Leon_Alberti.jpg width="230" height="326"]] ||
 * Detail of Renaissance artist Raphael's painting //School of Athens,//