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Raphael's fresco "The School of Athens". Along with da Vinci he is the second of the two towers of the Renaissance. He was primarily a sculptor but the world mostly knows that he decorated the ceiling in the room where Popes are elected. When they cleaned those frescos of centuries of fatty soot they found the light of impressionism under all that darkness. He declared to the Pope that he was not a painter. His 'Last Judgment" says otherwise. |
