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Raphael |
1483-1520 |
youngest of three Renaissance "giants" (Michaelangelo, Leonardo) |
1508 - commissioned by Pope Julius II to decorate suite of papal rooms in Vatican |
Stanza della Segnatura (where Pope signed act of grace) |
Subject: The School of Athens, portraying the secular sciences of philosophy |
Alcibiades shown in group at left, with Socrates, Alexander, Xenophon |
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