The School of Athens

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four main frescoes on the walls of the Stanza

“Divine Inspiration”

“Knowledge of Things Divine”

"To Each What Is Due”

“Seek Knowledge of Causes”

The philosophers

Protogenes (Il Sodoma, Perugino or Timoteo Viti)

Ptolemy

Zoroaster

Euclid or Archimedes with students (Bramante)

Plotinus

Diogenes

Aristotle

Plato (Leonardo da Vinci)

Heraclitus (Michelangelo)

Socrates

Parmenides

Aeschines or Xenophon

Hypatia (Francesco Maria della Rovere)

Antisthenes or Xenophon

Alcibiades or Alexander the Great

Pythagoras

Averroes

Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius or Anaximander or Empedocles

Federico II of Mantua

Epicurus

Zeno of Citium

The Enlightenment

Neoclassicism

Archeticure

most vividly represented in the Palladian architecture of Georgian Britain and Ireland

most were Roman copies of Hellenistic sculptures

surviving Baroque and Rococo styles

devoid of pastel colors and haziness

expression in architecture and sculpture

Rousseau vs. Voltaire

Public institutions

The book industry

The Republic of Letters and Grub Street

scientific and literary journals

scientific literature

Academies

Setting

The building is in the shape of a Greek cross,

There are two sculptures in the background

The sculpture on the right is Athena, goddess of wisdom, in her Roman guise as Minerva.[

The one on the left is the god Apollo, god of the Sun, archery and music, holding a lyre

Some have suggested that the building itself was intended to be an advance view of St. Peter's Basilica

Bramante helped Raphael with the architecture in the picture

The architecture of the building was inspired by the work of Bramante

harmony between pagan philosophy and Christian theology