Raphael died at thirty-seven having organized the High Renaissance into something that looked effortless. The School of Athens, in the Vatican, sets Plato and Aristotle in an architecture he invented, with the faces of his contemporaries standing in for the ancients.

He ran a large workshop, so 'Raphael' is sometimes a design and sometimes a hand. There is no open market for a secure panel. Drawings attributed to him are argued over one by one.