Christmas Eve

"Christmas Eve" painting by J. Hoover & Son, 1878

Vatican

Plato (left) and Aristotle in Raphael's 1509 fresco The School of Athens, Apostolic Palace, Vatican

Augustine of Hippo (354–430), Christian theologian. His writing on free will and original sinremains influential in Western Christendom.

Edwin Landseer, Scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Titania and Bottom, 1851. It has been in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia since 1932.

Vatican

The papal throne (cathedra), in the apse of Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran, symbolises the Holy See.

Michelangelo

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni - 6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564 - , known best as simply Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance born in the Republic of Florence, who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art

Tate Britain, London, UK

Academy

The School of Athens, fresco by Raphael (1509–1510), of an idealized academy

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