The School of Athens
Giorgio Ghisi, Italian, 1520 - 1582
after Raphael, Italian, 1483 - 1520
1550
Engraving on paper
Overall: 20 1/4 × 32 1/8 in. (51.4 × 81.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Jane and W. David Dance, Class of 1940
PR.991.58.1
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Engraved, in plate, center: RAPHAEL VRB. / .IN. / GEORGIVS MNT. / VANVS / .F.; engraved, in plate, lower right: HIERONYMVS COCK PICTOR EXCVEBAT.1550.CVM GRATIA ET PRIVELIGIO P AN.8.; engraved, in plate, lower left corner [inset]: PAVLVS ATHENIS PER EPICVRAEOS / ET STOICS QVOSDAM PHILOSO= / PHOSADDVCTVS IN MARTIVVICV. / STANS IN MEDIO VICO.SYMPTA OC= / CASIONE AB INSPECTA A SE ARA. / DOCET VNVM ILLVM.VERVM.IPSIS / IGNOTVM DEVM. REPREHENDIT IDO= / LOLATRIAM, SVADET RESPIPISCENTIA. / INCVLCAT ET VNIVERSALIE IVDICII / DIEM.ET MORTVORVM. PER REDIVI= / VVM / CHRISTVM. / RESVRRECTIONEM. / .ACT. / .XVII.
Course History
PHIL 23, Philosophy of Art, John Kulvicki, Winter 2013
SART 65, Architecture I, Karol Kawiaka, Spring 2012
SART 65, Architecture I, Karol Kawiaka, Spring 2013
SART 65, Architecture I, Karol Kawiaka, Winter 2014
ITAL 22, Humanism and Renaissance, Courtney Quaintance, Spring 2014
THEA 16, Theatre and Society II: Early Modern Performance, Laura Edmondson, Winter 2015
SART 65, 66, 68, Architecture I, II, III, Karol Kawiaka, Spring 2015
FRIT 34, Sex and Gender in the Italian Renaissance, Courtney Quaintance, Spring 2015
ITAL 7, Women in Renaissance Venice, Courtney Quaintance, Spring 2015
ARTH 16.17, Rembrandt, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2016
HIST 43.02, European Intellectual and Cultural History 1400-1800, Darrin McMahon, Fall 2019
SART 65, Architecture 1, Karol Kawiaka, Winter 2020
SART 65.01, Architecture I, Karol Kawiaka, Winter 2021
SART 65, Architecture I, Karol Kawiaka, Winter 2022
HIST 43.02, European Intellectual History 1400-1800, Darrin McMahon, Fall 2022
SART 65.01, Architecture I, Karol Kawiaka, Fall 2022
Studio Art 65.01, Architecture I, Karol Kawiaka, Winter 2023
Exhibition History
An Introduction to the History of Art: Works from the 15th to 18th Centuries, Art 2, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 14, 1993-January 30, 1994
Antiquity in Rome from the Renaissance to the Age of Enlightenment: Selections from Dartmouth's Collections, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 7-September 9, 2001.
Books in Art/Art in Books, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, ArtH16, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 4-March 9, 1997.
Figures and Structures: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 2-March 10, 1996.
Forms and Messages: Selections from the Hood Museum of Art Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 19-March 10, 2002.
Introduction to the History of Art: Works from the 15th to the 18th Centuries, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, ArtH 2, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 24, 1994-February 5, 1995
Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 13-December 21, 1994.
Representations of the Body in Space from the Renaissance to the Present: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 3-March 15, 1998.
Visual Proof: The Experience of Mathematics in Art, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 11-December 12, 1999.
Publication History
Adrian W. B. Randolph, ""How Great Rome Was the Ruins Teach": Antiquity in Renaissance Rome". In T. Barton Thurber and Adrian W.B. Randolph, Antiquity in Rome from the Renaissance to the Age of Enlightenment: Selections from Dartmouth's Collections, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2001, pp. 28-30, 42, ill. p. 6 (detail), p. 29, listed p.72.
Paul Calter, "Raphael's School of Athens and the Art of Perspective." In D. I. Wallace, editor, Visual Proof: The Experience of Mathematics in Art, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1999, pp. 16-19, ill. p. 16, listed p. 61, Cat. no. 2.
Provenance
Jane (1922-2007) and W. David Dance (1917-2012); given to present collection, 1991.
Catalogue Raisonne
Borsch/Lewis 11A ii/3, B i/3 Bartsch XV, 24
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