The School of Athens: Plato and Aristotle in a classical architectural setting surrounded by a number of philosophers from antiquity. After the fresco in the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican Palace

Engraver Giorgio Ghisi Italian
Publisher Hieronymus Cock Netherlandish
1550
Not on view
Sir Robert Walpole acquired a seventeenth-century copy of Raphael's "School of Athens" fresco at the Vatican, and hung it in the Common Parlour at Houghton Hall. This was among the works bought by Catherine the Great in 1779, and is now at the Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

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  • Title: The School of Athens: Plato and Aristotle in a classical architectural setting surrounded by a number of philosophers from antiquity. After the fresco in the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican Palace
  • Engraver: Giorgio Ghisi (Italian, Mantua ca. 1520–1582 Mantua)
  • Artist: After Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) (Italian, Urbino 1483–1520 Rome)
  • Publisher: Hieronymus Cock (Netherlandish, Antwerp ca. 1510–1570 Antwerp)
  • Date: 1550
  • Medium: Engraving
  • Dimensions: Plate: 20 3/8 × 32 5/16 in. (51.8 × 82 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925
  • Object Number: 25.62.30
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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