The school of Athens: a gathering of Greek philosophers disputing with Saint Paul the Apostle. Engraving by G. Ghisi, 1550, after Raphael.

  • Raphael, 1483-1520.
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The lettering interprets the subject as Saint Paul among the philosophers of Athens, according to Acts of the Apostles XVII.18-19: "Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection. And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is?"

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[Antwerp] : [H. Cock], [1550]

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1 print : engraving ; platemark 39.1 x 51.4 cm

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Paulus Athenis per Epicuraeos et Stoicos quosdam philosophos adductus in Martiu(m) Vicu(m), stans in medio vico, sumpta occasione ab inspecta a se ara, docet unum illum verum ipsis ignotum deum. Reprehendit idololatriam, suadet resisipiscentia(m), inculcat et universalis iudicii diem, et mortuorum per redivivum Christum resurrectionem. Act XVII. Raphael Urb. in. Georgius Mantuanus f.

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The left sheet of two sheets

References note

Adam Bartsch, Le peintre graveur, Vienna 1813, vol. XV, pp. 394-395, no. 24
G.B. Pezzini, S. Massari, S.P. Valenti Rodinò, Raphael invenit, Roma: Edizioni Quasar, 1985, p.38
Michal Lewis and R. E. Lewis, The engravings of Giorgio Ghisi, New York 1985, pp. 61-63, no. 11
C.L. Joost-Gaugier, 'Ptolemy and Strabo and their conversation with Apelles and Protogenes', Renaissance quarterly, 1998, 51, 3, 760-783

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Wellcome Collection 543311i

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After the fresco by Raphael in the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican, painted about 1508-11

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