This painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael is a masterpiece of the High Renaissance. It depicts a gathering of some of the most renowned philosophers, mathematicians, and scientists of the ancient world in the School of Athens. The painting is set in a large architectural setting with a grand dome in the
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The School of Athens is a fresco by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. It was painted between 1509 and 1511 as part of a commission by Pope Julius II to decorate the rooms now called the Stanze di Raffaello in the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City.