The School of Athens
Ancient philosophers in perfect perspective; Plato is given Leonardo's face
- Author
- Raphael
- Style
- Italian Renaissance — Antiquity measured anew: linear perspective, anatomy and proportion as the measure of man
- Century
- 16th century
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