the magnificent restoration he directed with the Vatican Museums restoration team led by Enrico Guidi. Several handprints that date from the time of the fresco's execution were found in an almost straight line across it at the height of the shafts of the pilasters. Although a detailed analysis of the fingerprints has not yet been undertaken, one hand must almost certainly be Raphael's. The others could belong to his assistants or to visitors on the scaffold. This discovery placed the artist and restorers into sudden communion. The generosity and vision of those who help conserve Raphael's art will enable us into the 21st century to still appreciate and be moved by his visual legacy.
             Every person in the drawing I some one special or something of Raphael. Zeno was an Eastern Roman emperor (474-91). A military leader, he married the daughter of Emperor Leo I (c.466), and their son reigned briefly as Leo II (474). On the boy's early death, Zeno became emperor. Obliged to flee to Isauria to escape a coup d'état, he returned to Constantinople in 476. He made peace with the Vandals in Africa, put down a rebellion in Asia Minor (484), and persuaded the Ostrogoths to leave the Eastern Empire by making Theodoric king of Italy (489). Seeking to reconcile orthodox Christians and Monophysites, he caused a schism with Rome (484-519).
             Epicurus was a Greek philosopher. His school in Athens, the Garden, competed with Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum. Several fundamental concepts characterize his philosophy. In physics, these are atomism, a mechanical conception of causa
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