Raphael's "The School of Athens" Detail circa 1511 Tie

A classic artwork that has passed into the public domain and makes wonderful gifts and other products. This is one of his most famous paintings, from the wall of the Stanze di Raffaello. It depicts an imaginary scene gathering many famous thinkers of ancient Greece, including Pythagoras, Zeno, Euclid, Archimedes, Aeschines, Epicurus, Anaximander, Empedocles, Alcibiades, Antisthenes, Xenophon, Hypatia, Parmenides, Diogenes of Sinope, Plotinus, Strabo, Zoroaster, Ptolemy, Apelles, and Protogenes, among others. Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (1483 -1520) also known as Raphael (or Raffaello), was one of the leading Renaissance painters in Italy. Famous for his frescos and other paintings, he was also, along with with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, an architect. All of our products are made with large scale images that have been carefully edited to provide the best resolution, colour and detail possible.