A School (of Athens) Reunion

Raphael painted the artists and thinkers of the Renaissance as they saw themselves — successors to the great classical Greek philosophers…

‘The School of Athens’ by Raphael, a large fresco completed in 1511 [view license]

Renaissance is French for ‘rebirth’. The Renaissance was when western culture picked-up from where classical culture left-off… after a hiatus of one-and-a-half millennia. Think of it as…