"The School of Athens" is Raphael's monumental fresco painted between 1509 and 1511 for the Vatican's Apostolic Palace, depicting an imaginary gathering of history's greatest philosophers and thinkers in a grand architectural setting.
The composition centers on Plato and Aristotle walking together in dialogue, surrounded by figures including Socrates, Pythagoras, Euclid, and others, each engaged in intellectual discourse or contemplation beneath soaring classical arches.
