In this rendition of Raphael’s School of Athens, the great thinkers bask in a heavenly atrium, eternally reviving their love of wisdom. (The painting includes some familiar faces Raphael originally included, as well as some new faces I added. I will update the list of everyone featured soon; stay tuned!)

But below, a darkened reflection haunts the canvas—a graveyard of skeletal and ghostly figures, where once-revered scholars fade into oblivion, their legacy a forgotten echo of ancient thought. They say wisdom never dies, but what happens when no one searches for it? When the pursuit of truth is abandoned, even the brightest minds are condemned to shadows, their voices lost to the silence of an unthinking world.