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School Of AthensThe painting The School of Athens (italian: La scuola di Atene) is a fresco by Raffaello Santi that shows renaissance thinkers who are situated with Greek and Roman scholars.
= Introduction = The School of Athens was painted around 1510 by Raphael Sanzio at the Vatican on the west wall of the Stanza of the Signatura, an anteroom to the better-known Sistine Chapel. Though there is no unanimous concensus on who all the characters in the painting represent (aside from Plato and Aristotle in the center), some probable assignments suggested by experts are below. = Persons = Center - Plato - holding the Timaeus - Pointing up as a sign of his metaphysical belief in the higher world of the forms, shown with the face of Leonardo.
- Aristotle - holding his Ethics with hand palm down, reflecting a more grounded approach to the problem of universals.
Image:Sanzio 01 Plato Aristotle.jpg|Plato and Aristotle Image:Sanzio 01 Heraclitus.jpg|Heraclitus Left Image:Sanzio 01 Pythagoras.jpg|Pythagoras, with Averroes behind him. The girl in white clothes is Hypatia Right Image:Sanzio 01 Euclid.jpg|Euclid Image:Sanzio 01 Raphael.jpg|Raphael Image:Sanzio 01 Zoroaster Ptolmey.jpg|Zoroaster and Ptolemy
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