Curator’s inspection
Move across the painting — or drag on touch — to study brushwork and craquelure through the curator’s loupe.
The School of Athens
Plato and Aristotle stride beneath coffered vaults, the whole of ancient thought gathered around them.
Painted for the room where Julius II kept his library; it faces the Disputation of the Holy Sacrament, pairing reason with revelation.
Plato points upward to the Forms; Aristotle gestures level, toward the observable world.
The architecture anticipates Bramante's designs for the new St. Peter's.
Source: Wikimedia Commons. Public domain work; reproduction licence as listed at source.
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