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The School of Athens, a Rare card
The School of Athens is a fresco by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 69
- DEF
- 71
- Power
- 140
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 450,000
Power 140 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- It was painted between 1509 and 1511 as part of a commission by Pope Julius II to decorate the rooms now called the Stanze di Raffaello in the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City.
- The fresco depicts a congregation of ancient mathematicians, philosophers, and scientists, with Plato and Aristotle featured in the center.
- The identities of most figures are ambiguous or discernible only through subtle details or allusions, among those commonly identified are Socrates, Pythagoras, Archimedes, Heraclitus, Ibn Rushd, Euclid, and Zarathustra.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The The School of Athens article was read about 450,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 69 and blocks with 71: each hit it takes is cut by 28 %.
How to get The School of Athens
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, The School of Athens (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Raphael, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.






