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

After Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) 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.

Artwork Details

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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