page_title: Raphael
section_title: The Stanze
hierarchical_section_title: Raphael / Rome / The Stanze
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Détail de la fresque «&#160;L'École d'Athènes&#160;» peinte par Raphaël en 1509 Deutsch: Raffael: Die Schule von Athen (Detail). Platon und Aristoteles (hinten), Heraklit und Diogenes (vorn)
context_page_description: Raffaello Sanzio, usually known as Raphael was a Renaissance painter and architect. With Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, he is one of the three greatest painters of the High Renaissance.
  He is best known for his paintings of the Madonna and Christ Child and for his paintings in the Vatican in Rome, Italy.
context_section_description: Among Raphael's most famous paintings are the frescos that are painted on the walls of Julius II's own rooms in the Vatican Palace, known as the Stanze. The paintings in the Stanza della Segnatura and the Stanza d'Eliodoro were created by Raphael himself, whilst the Stanza dell'Incendio was designed by Raphael and painted by his assistants.
  One of the frescoes in the Stanza della Segnatura is of the greatest importance. This painting is called The School of Athens. It shows a group of learned people from Ancient Greece, philosophers, poets, dramatists, mathematicians and others. They are listening to the central figure, who is the philosopher, Plato. The painting is meant to show that at that time, the early 1500s, there was a new birth of ideas and learning among the people of Rome that was equal to the learning of Ancient Athens.
  To make this message clear, Raphael used the faces of the people that he knew. Michelangelo, with his broken nose, is sitting with his chin on his hand. The tall figure of Plato with long hair and flowing beard is a portrait of Leonardo da Vinci.
  One of the excellent things about this painting is the way that Raphael has painted the building in which the figures are standing. The architecture looks as if it is opening up from the real room.
caption: Detail from The School of Athens.
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