The school of Athens: a gathering of ancient philosophers. Engraving by G. Volpato after G. Cades after Raphael.
- Raphael, 1483-1520.
- Date
- [17--]
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Raphael Santius pinx. in aedibus vaticanis. Pio Sexto pont. max. bonarum artium restitutori ac vindici D.D.D. Joannes Volpato. Joseph Cades delineavit. Joannes Volpato sculpsit et vendit Romae.
Publication/Creation
Romae [Rome] : Joannes Volpato sculpsit et vendit, [17--]
Edition
[Second state]
Physical description
1 print : engraving ; platemark 39.1 x 51.4 cm
Publications note
G.B. Pezzini, S. Massari, S.P. Valenti Rodinò, Raphael invenit, Roma: Edizioni Quasar, 1985, p. 39
C.L. Joost-Gaugier, 'Ptolemy and Strabo and their conversation with Apelles and Protogenes', Renaissance quarterly, 1998, 51, 3, 760-783
Reference
Wellcome Library no. 545945i
Reproduction note
After a fresco by Raphael in the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican, painted about 1508-11
Type/Technique
Language
- Latin
Subjects
- Philosophers.
- Artists.
- Bramante, Donato, 1444?-1514.
- Alcibiades.
- Aristotle, 384 B.C.-322 B.C.
- Plato.
- Averroës, 1126-1198.
- Diogenes, -approximately 323 B.C.
- Empedocles.
- Heraclitus, of Ephesus.
- Ptolemy, active 2nd century.
- Zoroaster.
- Socrates, 469 B.C.-399 B.C.
- Pythagoras.
- Epicurus.
- Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564.
- Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519.
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