"Raphael may have heaped anachronism on anachronism in the 'School of Athens,' and thus have given occasion for the many erroneous interpretations which this picture [of St. Paul with Aristotle.] has suffered; in the idea itself, on which the dramatic interest of the whole conception depends, and which invests it with true unity and power, there is certainty no obscurity, and this idea comes before us with perfect clearness and superior to all anachronisms, when we see St. Paul, the great Apostle of Gentiles, by the side of Aristotle, the representative of scholastic theology."