superhero Wed Sep 08, 2010 1:09 pm
My all time favorite!
The School of Athens, or Scuola di Atene in Italian, is one of the most famous paintings by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. It was painted between 1510 and 1511 as a part of Raphael's commission to decorate with frescoes the rooms now known as the Stanze di Raffaello, in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican.
I knew a painter that reproduced this to exact detail, except he put his face in the place of Raphael's - that was very cool :)