Occasionally in large pictures old master European artists will include a self-portrait, reminding viewers that they produced these artifacts. Thus in The School of Athens (1509-11), which is in the Vatican, along with its prominent portraits of Plato, Aristotle and Ptolemy at the extreme right hand margin a younger man looks out at us. This More

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