For Closer Look: Raphael’s School of Athens: Why do you suppose that Raphael chose to use the likenesses of so many of his contemporaries as models for the figures from Classical antiquity depicted in the painting?
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Raphael’s use of his contemporaries as models for the School of Athens reflects the broader humanist goals of the painting. By using these contemporaries, the artist was implicitly positioning himself and his Italian colleagues as the new embodiment of the ancient schools of learning and the arts.
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