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We located the category about Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) in Yahoo!'s directory (under Artists > Masters), and browsed through the selected web sites. Several of the sites listed there displayed images of the fresco "The School of the Athens," which hangs in the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican and dates from 1510. None of them gave us a clue to the identities of the figures other than Plato and Aristotle. We used an easy advanced search technique to hunt further. We typed '+"School of Athens" +Raphael' into the search box. This search expression requests pages
that mention both the title and the artist's name. We scanned the first page of results, and spotted this comment, "If you would like to know who's who in this painting, see The School Of Athens...." Eureka! We clicked on the link, which took us straight to a "404," a missing or out-of-date web page. It was back to the search results page. Methodically, we explored all the relevant links. Luckily we were only a few clicks away from our goal. At a multilingual Swiss site named for the goddess Athena, we found your answer. The image-mapped "School of Athens" depicted here lets you place your mouse over the various figures and identify ancient philosophers like Epicurus, Pythagoras, Socrates, Heraclitus, Diogenes,
and other luminaries, as well as the figure of Raphael himself, making a cameo appearance in classic company.
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