The Renaissance was the revival of the ancient world through the spirit of the modern Christian world, and no work better represents this epoch than Raphael’s “The School of Athens.” Plato and Aristotle, the giants of ancient Western philosophy, and heroes of Raphael, walk toward us, flanked by a monumental gathering of Greek philosophers in the midst of discussion and the exchange of knowledge. But their faces would have been recognizable to Raphael’s contemporaries – perhaps as their own.