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Posted by MrJiveBoJingles on Dec-28-2007 22:24:

The School of Athens

A pretty famous 16th century painting by Raphael. Click for giant version:

I knew that a few of the people in it were philosophers (Plato in the upper middle, most prominently), but what I didn't know before today is that almost every person in the picture is a philosopher or scientist of some sort (probably 80 - 90% of them). There are also a few famous politicians / military men like Alcibiades and Alexander.

Many of these people weren't contemporary with one another, of course, so the painting is a sort of "hall of fame" of Greek thought. Raphael put himself in the picture, too. He's at the bottom, far right, just to the left of the guy wearing the white hat.

This site has a clickable version that shows you who all the people were:

http://www.newbanner.com/AboutPic/a...l/nbi_ath4.html

Posted by SuspicionVandit on Dec-28-2007 22:26:

needs to be updated with Tiesto

Posted by MrJiveBoJingles on Dec-28-2007 22:26:

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Originally posted by SuspicionVandit
needs to be updated with Tiesto

Posted by Omega_M on Dec-28-2007 22:49:

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Originally posted by SuspicionVandit
needs to be updated with Tiesto

Posted by Sushipunk on Dec-28-2007 22:53:

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Originally posted by Omega_M
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Nicely done

Posted by Zoso on Dec-28-2007 22:56:

It needs moar Jesus pose!

Posted by Omega_M on Dec-28-2007 22:58:

my chopping powarz are limited to MS paint. sucks.

Posted by eROs.au on Dec-29-2007 00:04:

Beautiful painting. If anyone wants to give me a late Christmas gift, get me a reproduction of this