title: <div class="fn"> <span ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Portrait_of_Pope_Julius_II" class="extiw" title="w:en:Portrait of Pope Julius II">Portrait of Pope Julius II</a></span> </div>

artist: <bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Raphael" class="extiw" title="w:en:Raphael">Raphael</a> </bdi>

date: 1511<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1511-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>

medium: Technique Oil poplar

dimensions: size cm 108.7 81

current location: Institution:National Gallery, London

source: [http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/raphael-portrait-of-pope-julius-ii National Gallery, London] ImageNote|id=1|x=2009|y=732|w=363|h=616|dimx=3110|dimy=4226|style=2 info : "Della Rovere" in italian means "of Oak tree" in english. ImageNoteEnd|id=1 VI|[[:Category:Julius II portrait by Raffaello Sanzio|Julius II portrait by Raffaello Sanzio]]|00:13, 24 July 2011 (UTC)| subpage=Pope Julius II.jpg Assessments|enwiki=1|enwiki-nom=Pope Julius II Picture of week on the Czech Wikipedia|týden-en=48th |týden=48 |rok=2018

credit: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/raphael-portrait-of-pope-julius-ii">National Gallery, London</a>

title: <div class="fn"> <span >The Holy Family</span> </div>

artist: <bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Raphael" class="extiw" title="w:en:Raphael">Raphael</a> </bdi>

date: 1518 <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2467141#P571" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a>

dimensions: size cm

current location: <!-- location within the gallery/museum --> Institution:Louvre

source: [http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/art.asp?aid=124&page=2 www.artrenewal.org]

credit: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/art.asp?aid=124&amp;page=2">www.artrenewal.org</a>

title: <div class="fn"> <span >Italian: <span dir="ltr" lang="it"><i>Scuola di Atene <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q186953#P1476" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a></i></span></span> <span style="font-weight:bold"><span dir="ltr" lang="en"><i>School of Athens</i></span></span><div style="display: none;">title QS:P1476,it:"Scuola di Atene <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q186953#P1476" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a>"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lit,"Scuola di Atene <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q186953#P1476" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a>"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Les,"La escuela de Atenas"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lis,"Skólinn í Aþenu"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lms,"Sekolah Athens"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lbg,"Атинската школа"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Ltr,"Atina Okulu"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lzh-hk,"雅典學院"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lsk,"Aténska škola"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Luk,"Афінська школа"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lzh-hant,"雅典學院"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lzh-cn,"雅典学院"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lko,"아테네 학당"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Leo,"La Lernejo de Ateno"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lbs,"Atinska škola"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lbn,"এথেন্স বিদ্যালয়"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lfr,"L'École d'Athènes"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Ljv,"Sekolah Aténa"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lhr,"Atenska škola"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lvi,"Trường học Athena"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Llv,"Atēnu skola"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lsr,"Атинска школа"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lzh-sg,"雅典学院"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lnb,"Skolen i Athen"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Laz,"Afina məktəbi"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Len,"School of Athens"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lar,"مدرسة أثينا"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lhu,"Az athéni iskola"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Leu,"Atenasko Eskola"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lru,"Афинская школа"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lcy,"Ysgol Athen"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lbe,"Афінская школа"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lfa,"مکتب آتن"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lzh,"雅典學院"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lda,"Skolen i Athen"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lka,"ათენის სკოლა"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lja,"アテナイの学堂"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lia,"Le Schola de Athenas"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lhe,"אסכולת אתונה"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lla,"Schola Atheniensis"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lfi,"Ateenan koulu"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lta,"ஏதென்சு கல்விக்கூடம்"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lzh-hans,"雅典学院"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lpt,"Escola de Atenas"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lsr-ec,"Атинска школа"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lde,"Die Schule von Athen"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lro,"Școala din Atena"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Llt,"Atėnų mokykla"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lsl,"Atenska šola"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lcs,"Athénská škola"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lsq,"Shkolla e Athinës"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lhy,"Աթենքի դպրոց"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lid,"Mazhab Athena"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lpl,"Szkoła Ateńska"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lsv,"Skolan i Aten"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lnl,"School van Athene"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lmk,"Атинската школа"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lth,"โรงเรียนแห่งเอเธนส์"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lsco,"The Schuil o Athens"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lsr-el,"Atinska škola"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lca,"L'escola d'Atenes"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lsh,"Atenska škola"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lel,"Η Σχολή των Αθηνών"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lzh-tw,"雅典學院"</div> </div>

artist: <bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Raphael" class="extiw" title="w:en:Raphael">Raphael</a> </bdi>

date: 1511<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1511-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>

medium: fresco

source: Stitched together from [http://mv.vatican.va/3_EN/pages/x-Schede/SDRs/SDRs_03_02_020.html vatican.va]

credit: Stitched together from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://mv.vatican.va/3_EN/pages/x-Schede/SDRs/SDRs_03_02_020.html">vatican.va</a>

title: <i>La Vierge au chardonneret</i> (en italien : <i>Madonna del Cardellino</i>), représentant Marie, Jean le Baptiste et l'enfant Jésus.

artist: <bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Raphael" class="extiw" title="w:en:Raphael">Raphael</a> </bdi>

date: from 1505 until 1506 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1505-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P580,+1505-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1506-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>

medium: technique Oil panel

dimensions: size cm height=107 width=77

current location: Raphael and Andrea del Sarto Institution:Uffizi

source: From Google Cultural Institute|oAFhnMjj7HippQ

credit: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="//www.google.com/culturalinstitute/asset-viewer/oAFhnMjj7HippQ">oAFhnMjj7HippQ at Google Cultural Institute</a>, zoom level maximum

title: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Madonna_with_the_Blue_Diadem" class="extiw" title="w:en:Madonna with the Blue Diadem"><i>Madonna with the Blue Diadem</i></a>

artist: <bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Raphael" class="extiw" title="w:en:Raphael">Raphael</a> </bdi>

date: 1500-1520

dimensions: size cm 68 48.7

current location: Institution:Louvre Paris

source: Based on [[:File:La Vierge au voile, by Raffaello Sanzio, from C2RMF.jpg]], originally: From C2RMF|HD7

credit: Based on <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_Vierge_au_voile,_by_Raffaello_Sanzio,_from_C2RMF.jpg" title="File:La Vierge au voile, by Raffaello Sanzio, from C2RMF.jpg">File:La Vierge au voile, by Raffaello Sanzio, from C2RMF.jpg</a>, originally: C2RMF: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.technologies.c2rmf.fr/imaging/showcase/">Galerie de tableaux en très haute définition</a>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.technologies.c2rmf.fr/iipimage/showcase/zoom/HD7">image page</a>

title: Saint Michael Vanquishing Satan

artist: <bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Raphael" class="extiw" title="w:en:Raphael">Raphael</a> </bdi>

date: 1518<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1518-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>

medium: en 1=Oil transferred from wood to canvas

dimensions: size cm 268 160

current location: Institution:Louvre <!--within the institution-->

source: Retouched from [[:File:Le Grand Saint Michel, by Raffaello Sanzio, from C2RMF.jpg]], originally From C2RMF|HD14

credit: Retouched from <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Le_Grand_Saint_Michel,_by_Raffaello_Sanzio,_from_C2RMF.jpg" title="File:Le Grand Saint Michel, by Raffaello Sanzio, from C2RMF.jpg">File:Le Grand Saint Michel, by Raffaello Sanzio, from C2RMF.jpg</a>, originally C2RMF: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.technologies.c2rmf.fr/imaging/showcase/">Galerie de tableaux en très haute définition</a>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.technologies.c2rmf.fr/iipimage/showcase/zoom/HD14">image page</a>

title: <div class="fn"> <span >Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione</span> </div>

artist: <bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Raphael" class="extiw" title="w:en:Raphael">Raphael</a> </bdi>

date: Probably Winter 1514–1515

medium: Oil on canvas

dimensions: size cm height=82 width=67

current location: Institution:Louvre louvre location|room ID=453|object department=paintings

source: Photographed by Elsa Lambert of C2RMF on 2010-06-23, retouched from [[:File:Balthazar Castiglione, by Raffaello Sanzio, from C2RMF.jpg]], originally From C2RMF|LAE5953

credit: Photographed by Elsa Lambert of C2RMF on 2010-06-23, retouched from <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Balthazar_Castiglione,_by_Raffaello_Sanzio,_from_C2RMF.jpg" title="File:Balthazar Castiglione, by Raffaello Sanzio, from C2RMF.jpg">File:Balthazar Castiglione, by Raffaello Sanzio, from C2RMF.jpg</a>, originally C2RMF: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.technologies.c2rmf.fr/imaging/showcase/">Galerie de tableaux en très haute définition</a>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.technologies.c2rmf.fr/iipimage/showcase/zoom/LAE5953">image page</a>

title: Self-portrait with a friend

artist: <bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Raphael" class="extiw" title="w:en:Raphael">Raphael</a> </bdi>

date: 1519, photographed 2010-09-30

medium: Technique oil canvas

dimensions: size cm 99 83

current location: :Museum:Louvre

source: Retouched from [[:File:Portrait de l'artiste avec un ami, by Raffaello Sanzio, from C2RMF retouched.jpg]], originally From C2RMF|LAE6172

credit: Retouched from <a class="mw-selflink selflink">File:Portrait de l'artiste avec un ami, by Raffaello Sanzio, from C2RMF retouched.jpg</a>, originally C2RMF: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.technologies.c2rmf.fr/imaging/showcase/">Galerie de tableaux en très haute définition</a>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.technologies.c2rmf.fr/iipimage/showcase/zoom/LAE6172">image page</a>

title: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Justice" class="extiw" title="w:Lady Justice">Justice</a>

artist: <bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Antonio_Canova" class="extiw" title="w:en:Antonio Canova">Antonio Canova</a> </bdi>

date: 1792<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1792-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>

medium: technique gypsum

dimensions: Size unit=cm height=129 width=129

current location: Institution:Gallerie di Piazza Scala it|Sezione I

source: [http://www.artgate-cariplo.it Artgate Fondazione Cariplo]

credit: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.artgate-cariplo.it">Artgate Fondazione Cariplo</a>

description: <div class="description"> <p>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relief#Bas-relief_or_low_relief" class="extiw" title="w:Relief">bas-relief</a> of the Goddess of Justice is part of a group of thirteen plaster casts – representing allegorical figures, scenes inspired by the Iliad, the Odyssey and Phaedo, and depicting two works of mercy – in the Foundation’s Congress Centre. The reliefs were executed by Canova as a gift for Abbondio Rezzonico, a member of the Roman Senate, between 1793 and 1795. Rezzonico had already commissioned from the sculptor the commemorative monument to his uncle <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.clementexiii.it/zoom/zoom_mostra.html">Pope Clement XIII</a>, which was erected in St. Peter’s but not unveiled until 1792, twenty-three years after the Pope’s death. In 1781, the Veneto artist had executed for the Senator the statuette <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=1521">Apollo Crowning Himself</a> now held by the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Evidently the two men were on very friendly terms, probably also because they were both from the Veneto region. A frequenter of Rome artistic circles, Rezzonico also commissioned works from Piranesi and Pompeo Batoni – who immortalised him in a portrait now in the Museo di Bassano del Grappa. The bas-reliefs were hung in Villa Rezzonico at Bassano to create a “Canovian room”, as attested by 19th-century sources, similar to those in other aristocratic residences in Veneto (those of Zulian, Renier, Falier, Albrizi, Barisan, Cappello) as well as Rome (Villa Lante, Villa Torlonia). There is evidence that in the course of his career Canova produced various series of bas-reliefs, sometimes with different subjects, to satisfy the demands of collectors who kept up with all the current artistic trends. The most complete series of plaster casts, which were never executed in marble, is in the Gipsoteca in Possagno, and another series very like the one in the Cariplo Collection, is located in the Museo Correr, Venice. </p> <p>The technique used to execute them was the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost-wax_casting" class="extiw" title="w:Lost-wax casting">lost wax</a> process, which enables a one-off piece to be produced from a cast obtained from a prototype: this allows the artist to work on the plaster and to give it a unique quality. We know that Canova was in the habit of emphasising this original aspect also to justify the cost of producing the pieces, although he delegated the actual production to talented assistants like Vincenzo Malpieri. </p> <p>The desire to promote his own work led Canova, spurred on by the intellectuals of the day such as Pietro Giordani and Francesco Leopoldo Cicognara, to reproduce his sculptures in engravings, in order to make his production more widely known through an economical, straightforward medium. The collection of prints dedicated to “Connoisseurs and Lovers of Fine Arts”, published by the Rome bookseller Pier Luigi Scheri in 1817, is one of the finest examples of this, and the sculptor invited some of the leading artists then active in Rome, including Vincenzo Camuccini, <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">raffaello</u> Morghen, Jean-Baptiste Wicar, Tommaso Minardi and Francesco Hayez, to work on the project. </p> <p>Engravings of most of the plaster reliefs were executed, with the exception of the three Allegories connected with the design for Clement XIII’s tomb. </p> <p>The story of the Rezzonico reliefs is documented in the writings of the Rome antiquarian <a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Gherardo_de_Rossi" class="extiw" title="it:Giovanni Gherardo de Rossi">Giovanni Gherardo de Rossi</a>: in 1793 <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canova_Antonio,_Allegoria_della_Speranza.jpg" class="mw-redirect" title="File:Canova Antonio, Allegoria della Speranza.jpg">Hope</a> and <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canova_Antonio,_Allegoria_della_Carit%C3%A0.jpg" class="mw-redirect" title="File:Canova Antonio, Allegoria della Carità.jpg">Charity</a>, casts made from the figures sculpted on Clement XIII’s sarcophagus, were delivered; <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canova_Antonio,_Briseide_consegnata_da_Achille_agli_araldi_di_Agamennone.jpg" class="mw-redirect" title="File:Canova Antonio, Briseide consegnata da Achille agli araldi di Agamennone.jpg">Achilles Delivers Briseis to Agamemnon’s Heralds</a>, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canova_Antonio,_Uccisione_di_Priamo.jpg" class="mw-redirect" title="File:Canova Antonio, Uccisione di Priamo.jpg">Death of Priam</a> and <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canova_Antonio,_Socrate_beve_la_cicuta.jpg" class="mw-redirect" title="File:Canova Antonio, Socrate beve la cicuta.jpg">Socrates Drinking Hemlock</a> can be dated to the same year; and <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canova_Antonio,_Socrate_congeda_la_propria_famiglia.jpg" class="mw-redirect" title="File:Canova Antonio, Socrate congeda la propria famiglia.jpg">Socrates Taking Leave of His Family</a>, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canova_Antonio,_Danza_dei_figli_di_Alcinoo.jpg" class="mw-redirect" title="File:Canova Antonio, Danza dei figli di Alcinoo.jpg">Dance of the Sons of Alcynous</a> and <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canova_Antonio,_Ritorno_di_Telemaco.jpg" class="mw-redirect" title="File:Canova Antonio, Ritorno di Telemaco.jpg">Return of Telemachus</a> and <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canova_Antonio,_Allegoria_della_Giustizia.jpg" class="mw-redirect" title="File:Canova Antonio, Allegoria della Giustizia.jpg">Justice</a>, to 1794. The latter is the most interesting piece in the group, since it is the artist’s original study – and therefore not featured in other series – for a figure that does not appear in the final version of the funerary monument completed between 1784 and 1792. Lastly, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canova_Antonio,_Critone_chiude_gli_occhi_a_Socrate.jpg" class="mw-redirect" title="File:Canova Antonio, Critone chiude gli occhi a Socrate.jpg">Crito Closing the Eyes of Socrates</a> and <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canova_Antonio,_Offerta_del_peplo_a_Pallade.jpg" class="mw-redirect" title="File:Canova Antonio, Offerta del peplo a Pallade.jpg">Hecuba Offering the Robe to Pallas</a> arrived in Bassano del Grappa in 1795. To the same year should be dated <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canova_Antonio,_Dar_da_mangiare_agli_affamati.jpg" class="mw-redirect" title="File:Canova Antonio, Dar da mangiare agli affamati.jpg">Feed the Hungry</a> and <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canova_Antonio,_Insegnare_agli_ignoranti.jpg" class="mw-redirect" title="File:Canova Antonio, Insegnare agli ignoranti.jpg">Teach the Ignorant</a>, possibly executed on Rezzonico’s wishes, since he placed them in a school for children established on the premises of his villa. </p> <p>In all probability, and with the exception of the two pieces depicting works of mercy, the idea for the prototypes was developed some years earlier, as stated in Canova’s biography in Bassano: in point of fact they were executed at the same time as the funerary monument to Clement XIII, between 1783 and 1792. The technique of the plaster relief enabled Canova to experiment with a new language that was wholly Neoclassical and thus devoid of decorative elements and strict rules of perspective. These works reveal the sculptor’s attempt to adapt to contemporary literary canons, using a style that was spare and dramatic to the point of being expressionistic. </p> The bas-reliefs stayed in Bassano until 1837, when they were sold to the collector Antonio Piazza, who hung them in his mansion in Padua, which was later bought by the Counts of San Bonifacio. From there they went, as part of an inheritance, to a country house on the Verona plain, and were purchased by the Cassa di Risparmio delle Provincie Lombarde in 1991.</div>

title: The School of Athens (detail)

artist: <bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Raphael" class="extiw" title="w:en:Raphael">Raphael</a> </bdi>

date: 29 September 2011, 13:32

medium: Fresco

current location: Institution:Palazzi Vaticani, Rome Label|Q9292247

source: [[User:Jean-Pol GRANDMONT|Jean-Pol GRANDMONT]]

credit: <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jean-Pol_GRANDMONT" title="User:Jean-Pol GRANDMONT">Jean-Pol GRANDMONT</a>