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Dante and Heraclitus (detail)Raphael
This detail (1509–11) from The School of Athens features Dante Alighieri in a laurel wreath, uniquely placed among philosophers. Beside him is a figure believed to represent Heraclitus, modeled after Michelangelo. Raphael's inclusion of Dante connects poetic vision with the intellectual heritage of antiquity, demonstrating the Renaissance celebration of reason and imagination.
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