Raphael school of athens pythagoras biography

Heraclitus, looking like Michelangelo (his true name was Michelagniolo di Ludovico di Buonarroto Simon (6.3.1475 – 18.2.1564) Sculptor, Painter, Architect, Vatican).

Heraclitus is also called the dark melancholic philosopher, maybe this is the reason why he is shown thinking and serious. He is alone because he usually did not like others and in the “School of Athens” he and Diogenes are clear isolated figures.

Assumed to be inspired by Michelangelo's work of Jeremiah (Chapelle Sixtine, finished 1511?) (Like the melancholic Heraclitus Jeremiah is known from his Lamentations: “He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, and not into light”).

Raphael school of athens pythagoras biography

But also Michelangelo liked to be alone and although he obtained from the Pope much more money for his work than any other artist he was a scrooge.

Jeremiah, Michelangelo

27 Parmenides(Παρμενίδης ο Ελεάτης) (c.

510 – after 450 BC ?) ?

Probably Parmenides (c. 510-after 450 as late as 415 BC) or the mathematician and musician Nicom