The paintingSchool of Athens (italian: La scuola di Atene) its a fresco from Raphael Sanzio that shows renaissance thinkers who are situated with Greek and Roman scholars.
This second fresco, entitled the School of Athens, represents the truth acquired through reason.
Raphael began the third composition at the end of 1509 or the beginning of 1510.
In order to do this Raphael went back to the School of Athens, sketch a freehand drawing of Michaelangelo directly on the fresco, applied a cartoon (giant piece of paper that picks up the pigment of the drawing) to it, chipped away the plaster, applied it fresh and transferred the cartoon to the plaster.
The British School at Athens was created in 1886 in Athens, Greece, as a home for British Classical scholars working abroad.
It is now a major international center for Classical scholarship and houses one of the world's foremost classical libraries.
In 1878, Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb, the Professor of Greek at the University of Glasgow (later to become the Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge), proposed the idea of a British research institute to be based in Athens.
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