jan 1, 1509 - Raphael’s “The School of Athens”

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The School of Athens by an Italian Renaissance artist, Raphael, was a fresco that was painted as a part of Raphael's commission to design the rooms of the Stanze di Raffaello, in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican. It symbolizes the connection between art, philosophy, and science and was a distinctive feature of the Italian Renaissance. It was painted between 1509 and 1511 and is found in the first of the four rooms decorated by Raphael. In one of the paintings, Raphael organized figures into groupings to express a complex lesson on the history of philosophy and the various beliefs that were created by Greek philosophers.