It's finally complete!! YAY!!. Took 11 days of effort but the end result is absolutely amazing. It is so satisfying to see this completed.
Imagine what Raphael must have felt after completing his masterpiece!
Fun Contest:
Did you know that Raphael had painted a self portrait in this painting. The first person to find and tell me the exact location of Raphael in comments will win 1 SBD from me :)
To those of you who have not followed my journey with this puzzle - I had recently picked up this 1000 pc Jigsaw on my recent trip to Italy. It's called The School of Athens by Raffaello
Here it is after completion
Hi-Res version
Yes, I will Frame it :)
Day 2 - https://steemit.com/art/@gyanibilli/school-of-athens-day-2-progress-2017624t224923123z
Day 3 - https://steemit.com/art/@gyanibilli/school-of-athens-day-3-progress-2017626t1218898z
Day 5 - https://steemit.com/art/@gyanibilli/school-of-athens-1000-pc-jigsaw-day-5-progress-2017628t14638807z
Day 7 - https://steemit.com/art/@gyanibilli/school-of-athens-1000-pc-jigsaw-day-7-progress-201775t134846197z
Day 8 - https://steemit.com/art/@gyanibilli/half-way-through-1000-pc-jigsaw-day-8-progress-201776t10740148z
Day 10 - https://steemit.com/art/@gyanibilli/almost-there-1000-pc-jigsaw-day-10-progress-201778t16194759z
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Congrats @GyaniBilli! It's so nice to see you finally completed the School of Athens puzzle! WOW this is magnificent! I'm not sure which one is Raphael's self portrait here though, let me make a wild guess... is it the man in the middle wearing blue and sitting on the stairs? :D
P.S. I have learned that this man is actually Diogenes. Raphael is the young man with a black cap standing among (and peeking through) the astronomers at the bottom right of this painting, kinda cut off from your photos though. This painting has so many interesting figures!
Thanks a lot @thisjourney. Yes, you found the correct location of Raphael :)
It came out a bit cropped in the images I took.
This is a special painting indeed. Surprisingly, just in the past few days after completing this, I came across two videos. These were completely unrelated to art but somehow the hosts mentioned and showed this very painting while explaining the link to their subjects.
One video was a Ted talk on virtual reality and other was on consciousness on gaia! Still figuring out what the universe wants to tell me :)
oh my god! That's synchronicity! You are creating your reality! :D use this power wisely!!!
Thanks @thisjourney for giving a clear direction to these repetitive occurrences. I will now make a conscious effort to use this power wisely :)
nice! great job
Thanks a lot @anquazaru!
An amazing art work. Is Raphael the guy on the vary far right looking out directly at the viewer?
Thanks @benjygh! There are actually 2 on the far right looking at the viewer :) Which one ?
Oh I'm late to reply! Is it the one in orange, almost cut off at the end? I saw somewhere that looking straight out at the viewer is a common way to Renaissance painters inserted self portraits.
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I believe Rafael is the person on the far right, standing with his back to the scene. He is the "observer". No, I did not quickly look it up on the internet. I inherited a great many books on art from my mother, and for some reason this specific triviality was stored in my mind. Am I right?
I had to comment on my own post. Now I did search to find out which one is Rafael, and I stand corrected. I will, however, not correct myself here. Let us see who gets it right!
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