If I were part of the painting “The School of Athens” I would be Pythagoras de Samos. Pythagoras was an Ionian Greek mathematician and founder of the religious movement called Pythagoreanism. He is often revered as a great mathematician, mystic and scientist; however some have questioned the width of his contributions to mathematics and natural philosophy. In the painting, Pythagoras is with a book working on something which is most likely to be math, while everybody is sort of looking at what he is writing and copying it down. He was a very clever man and had lots of knowledge in his times. Like Pythagoras I say that everything is related to mathematics and everything could be predicted and measured. I also have a great interest in mathematics, nature and science. What also describes Pythagoras as a great man is that he made very influential contributions on philosophy and religious teachings. Although he did all this, he never became so famous because his writings didn’t survive. Many of the accomplishments credited to Pythagoras may actually have been accomplishments of his colleagues and successors. If the writings of this man were spread, the changes of knowledge would have been extraordinary.
How can art be a mirror of society?
Art can be a mirror of society in many ways like in the School of Athens, they show the people interacting with each other, in other words they are socializing, another way would be that art can show culture and also religion, which are both on every society. Art also shows people which are what form a society. Art also shows landscape and background, which are also part of a society, art also shows different details of a society.
