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School of Athens

Scuola di Atene

art material performance visual art artwork major Lifetime Path planned

Creators

  • Raphael, artist

Canon Rationale

A major Renaissance fresco, included for humanist iconography, perspective, Raphael's Vatican rooms, and the visual canon of philosophy and antiquity.

Path

Lifetime path, phase 1, rank 95.

Evidence

  • museum record: Vatican Museums page for Raphael's School of Athens in the Stanza della Segnatura.
  • field survey: Smarthistory, 'Raphael, School of Athens'.

Audit Flags

museum record bias, overfamiliarity bias

Sensitivity Flags

museum record bias

Completion unit: study the fresco through high-quality documentation and Renaissance art-history context.

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