Large oil on canvas painting after Raphael (Italian, 1483-1520).

Reproduction painting depicting perhaps his most famous artwork, the fresco “The School of Athens” (1509-1511). With a metal plaque identifying the artwork. The number 4 is painted along the lower left corner. The original fresco is located in the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City. It is part of a series of rooms now known as the Stanze di Raffaello. The painting depicts noted Greek philosophers and mathematicians including Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, Archimedes, and Heraclitus. The Renaissance artists Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo are also present in the painting and are depicted as Plato and Heraclitus respectively.

Provenance: Joseph Burnett, Southborough, Massachusetts; Donated from previous to San Francisco State University, 1930, displayed in their library until the 1970s.

Sight; height: 65 1/2 in x width: 45 1/2 in.
Framed; height: 56 in x width: 76 1/2 in.