I became enchanted with Raphael's "School of Athens" after I saw it in person at the Vatican Museum in Rome this past summer (I have a poster of it in my room). Eavesdropping on a group tour, I was excited to hear all of the names that I recognized from my math and science classes. I guess I'm pretty dorky. The two stories that about the painting that stood out the most was about the woman standing in white in the bottom left hand corner. She was Raphael's mistress at the time and I like the thought of Raphael subtlety subverting the Catholic Church to include an image of his lover at the time.
Anyway, in the image Raphael utilizes a series of arches in the background to create a sense of space. Raphael also makes the figures in the foreground much larger than the figures in the background. The image also has vanishing point in the middle and the floors and the walls provide clean orthagonals converging in the middle.
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