A 500-year-old fresco by Raphael

[Lionel Mandrake]

The School of Athens is arguably Raphael's masterpiece. It's located in the Vatican Museum, which we visited a couple of weeks ago. CaliforniaPeggy will post a couple of shots she took.

Here is a detail showing the central figures, Plato and Aristotle.



There are a few anachronisms here. The ancient philosophers are wearing Renaissance costumes and holding books of the modern kind, with titles in Italian. In this detail you can read parts of the book titles, Timeo and Etica. (That's how we know who the central figures are.)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. It's a wonderful painting. Here are a couple of pics that I took:

The whole picture:



And a detail that is supposed to show us the portrait of Rafael himself: He is the dark-haired gentleman on the right, looking directly out at us...

[Lionel Mandrake]

4. Nice pics!

Scholars have had fun trying to identify all the figures. Wikipedia identifies a different figure as Raphael. Nobody knows for sure who is who.

Since your picture of the whole fresco was taken from one side, the central figures don't appear to be in the center. But they are.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. thanks for posting this, LM.

[Lionel Mandrake]

3. You're welcome!

And thanks for dropping by.

[Kali]

5. ah, tag team fresco pix

nice, thanks! and I hope Peggy is feeling better.

[Lionel Mandrake]

6. Tag team?

That's a kind of wrestling. I don't see the connection to art. But no matter -- I'm glad you like the thread.

Peggy is indeed feeling better, but we are still fighting this bug.

[Kali]

7. it was a riff on a running Lounge meme

MiddleFingerMom's many difficult hospitalizations are tempered by the (imagined) tag-team bed-baths.

You were tag-team photographing.