The School of Athens

Tell me this isn't posed! Is it? It's a great shot either way, but if it isn't posed, then, well, I hate you because I'll likely never get a shot like this.

It has a classic just-hanging-around-the-Roman-senate look to it, completely overlaid with an almost Rockwell tableau. I love it. Quite a shot.

Peter:

It was posed - look up Raphael's School of Athens in the Stanza della Segnatura (Vatican) and you'll see the "original".

These are students with whom I traveled with for 5 weeks in the summer of 2001 in Italy. This photo was to be a momento for them. They all got a print of it.

It's refreshing to find that modern recreations of old masters' paintings (fresco in this case) can still have life after hundreds of years.

Bill Schneider