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A figure speculated to be this painting’s only woman appears in a white robe (10[1])near a man (10[2]-5[1])driving away (10[1]-5[1])three (10[1])youths (-5[1])carrying a scroll. (10[3])Guerino (10[1])Mazzola (10[2])analyzed a drawn six pointed star (10[1])in this (10[1])painting (10[1])on a small chalkboard. (10[3])This painting (10[1])is housed (10[1])with the artist’s Parnassus and La Disputa (10[2])in the (10[1])Stanza (10[4])della (10[3])Segnatura (10[4])(“sen-yah-TOO-rah”). A man (10[1])in this painting lays on some (10[1])stairs and (10[1])reads (10[1])a paper (10[5])underneath (10[1]-5[1])a massive (10[3])honeycomb-decorated (-5[1])hallway. (10[2]-5[2])One of the (10[1])two (10[1])central figures in this painting (10[1])holds (-5[1])a (10[1])copy (10[2])of his Nicomachean (10[1])Ethics (10[9])while the other, (10[4]-5[2])likely (10[2])modeled after Leonardo (10[2])Da Vinci, (10[1])points (10[1])upwards (10[2])towards (10[1]-5[1])the sky. (10[5])For 10 (10[2])points, Plato, (-5[1])Aristotle, and (10[1])other (10[1])philosophers (10[2])appear in what (10[1])fresco (10[1]-5[1])by (10[1])Raphael? (10[1])■END■ (10[6]0[8])

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