Gaspare Oselli(probably) (c. 1536 - after 1580) after the engraving by Giorgios Ghisis of Raphael's School of Athens
, 1617. Copperplate engraving, 49.4 cm x 81 cm (image).
- Graphic in two parts, slightly bumped in places and somewhat brownstained
In contrast to Raphael's fresco in the Stables of the Vatican Palace, the two protagonists are surrounded by a halo and the titles of the books they hold have been erased. The complementary juxtaposition of Plato and Aristotle in Raphael's work is interpreted here as a sermon by St. Paul in Athens.
