The School of Athens by Raphael


The School of Athens is a fresco in Apostolic Palace, Vatican by a prominent artist of renaissance era Raphael Sanzio. He made this fresco in two years on the wall of the Apostolic Palace. Paintings shows all the major figures of the school including famous philosophers and savants like Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Pythagoras and many others. Every figure is doing different activities. The central figures of the painting are Plato on the left and Aristotle on the right. In this grand picture, Raphael has put big efforts. In modern world, this kind of work and artistic knowledge gives new artist a great inspiration.