Raphael

School of Athens

Grace personified. He absorbed the lessons of Leonardo and Michelangelo and synthesized them into something luminous and seemingly effortless. The School of Athens is the Renaissance's self-portrait: all of philosophy gathered in perfect pictorial harmony.

Key works

• School of Athens1509–1511— Philosophy as spatial composition
  Stanze di Raffaello, Vatican
• Sistine Madonna1512— The most copied painting of the 19th century
  Gemaldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden

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