A Cultural Synaesthesia from the Prism of Raphael’s “School of Athens”: Visual Art, Music, Philosophy

Abstract

Understanding cultural practices including music from the visual may look like a daring endeavour. To disclose the synaesthetic relationships between such practices, this article offers a nomadic journey through different interpretive aspects of the visual arts, music history and even philosophy, starting from the prism of Raphael’s famous fresco “The School of Athens” (1509–1511).