School of Athens, with labels

I just thought some of you might like this Substack post

which includes the painting “The School of Athens,” except with all the philosophers labeled. According to the Wikipedia article linked in this paragraph: Commentators have suggested that nearly every great ancient Greek philosopher can be found in the painting, but determining which are depicted is speculative, since Raphael made no designations outside possible likenesses, and no contemporary documents explain the painting. Compounding the problem, Raphael had to invent a system of iconography to allude to various figures for whom there were no traditional visual types. For example, while the Socrates figure is immediately recognizable from Classical busts, one of the figures alleged to be Epicurus is far removed from his standard depiction.

I don’t know, I just thought the labeled image and the post at Substack were kinda neat. Here it is if you would like to click through and look at it.

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