Raphael’s painting the School of Athens has often been associated with the enlightenment, secularism and intellectualism, but did you know that this mural is in the Vatican, in what was the pope’s personal quarters? Here you’ll see many ancient philosophers from Plato to Socrates. Raphael is announcing an era of secularism and humanism inside the walls of the Vatican.

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