Fifty thinkers, one impossible moment0:00 / 0:47Preview
Ten stops, 22 minutes, on your phone in the museum. The first stop is free, the whole tour $4.99.
Stop 8 of 10 in Vatican Museums Highlights
The School of Athens
It's in the Room of the Segnatura, one of the four Raphael Rooms, on your way to the Sistine Chapel.
Where to find it
Room of the Segnatura, one of the Raphael Rooms.
It was among the first works Raphael painted in the Vatican, while Michelangelo was at work on the Sistine Chapel ceiling nearby.
Plato and Aristotle stand at the center: Plato points upward, his Timaeus in his hand, and Aristotle beside him holds his Ethics.
In the foreground, a man leans on a block of marble, writing on a sheet of paper. He’s Heraclitus, and he has Michelangelo’s face.
On the right, Euclid bends over his pupils, teaching them geometry. Near the right edge, a young man in a black beret looks straight out at you: Raphael himself.
