The School of Athens (Scuola di Atene)

person depicted: Alcibiades (450 BC – 404 BC) – Athenian military commander and politician Archimedes (ca 287 BC – ca 212 BC) – Greek mathematician, physicist and inventor Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) – Ancient Greek philosopher Bembo, Pietro (1470-1547) – cardinal, philologist, poet and historian Michelangelo, Buonarroti (1475-1564) – sculptor, painter, architect, poet Diogenes (ca 413 BC – 323 BC) – philosopher, representative of the Cynics Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua (1466-1519) Heraclitus (ca 540 - ca 480 BC) – philosopher Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) – artist Pythagoras (ca 572 BC – ca 497 BC) – Greek philosopher, polymath Plato (ca 427 BC – 347 BC) – Greek philosopher Raphael (1483-1520) – painter, architect Rovere, Francesco Maria I della (1490-1538) – Duke of Urbino Socrates (ca 470–399 BC) – philosopher Zoroaster (Zarathustra, &th/6th c. BC) – founder of Zoroastrianism, an ancient Iranian religion

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