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cartoon in Ambrosian Library, Milan. Vasari says the fresco represents the union of Theology and Philosophy through Astronomy, and points out St. Matthew in the so-called Pythagoras. Giorgio Mantovano (1560) engraved it under the title of St. Paul disputing with Stoics and Epicureans. It has also been said to represent St. Paul preaching at Athens. Engraved by Volpato; G. Ghisi.—Vasari, ed. Mil., iv. 331; Müntz, 327; Passavant, ii. 79; Springer, 172; Kugler (Eastlake), ii. 428; Perkins, 123.
School of Athens, Raphael, Camera della Segnatura, Vatican, Rome.
SCHOOL, EVENING (De avondschool),
Gerard Dou, Amsterdam Museum; wood,
H. 1 ft. 9 in. × 1 ft. 4 in. The teacher, seated
behind a table at left, is talking, with
his left forefinger raised; in his front, a
boy, his figure lighted by the flame of a candle
on the table and a lantern on the floor,
is leaning over a book; other pupils in foreground
at left, and in background; above,
a curtain, draped to right. G. van der
Pot sale, Rotterdam (1808), 17,500 francs.
SCHOOL OF LEGISLATION, George
Frederick Watts, Dining Hall of Lincoln's
Inn, London; fresco, H. 40 ft. × 45 ft. The
great legislators of the world, Confucius,
Moses, Justinian, and others, thirty-three
figures in all, grouped in a manner obviously
inspired by Raphael's School of Athens.
A grand work, allied in conception and
drawing to the Roman and in colour to the
Venetian school. It is surpassed in size
among modern works only by Cornelius's
Last Judgment, at Munich.—Portfolio
(1870), 66.
SCHOOL OF LOVE. See Cupid, Education
of.
SCHOOL, TURKISH (École turque),
Alexandre Decamps, Fodor Museum, Amsterdam;
canvas, H. 3 ft. 10 in. × 3 ft. Interior,
with the turbaned pedagogue seated
on a divan and the children disposed in various
groups. Painted in 1846; formerly
in collection of Marquis Maison; acquired
in Paris, 1857. Decamps painted a similar