The galleries hold the seven arts personified with their tools, the virtues with their emblems, the four temperaments at a game of cards, and one fresco read figure by figure. Every label carries its artist, its date, where the work hangs now, and what may be done with the picture of it. Choose a collection, then a work; its label opens beside it with a door to its place on the timeline, and the School of Athens opens figure by figure, from the list beneath it or on the picture itself.
Eight works in which the seven arts are personified, ordered, taught, or driven out — the tradition picturing its own curriculum.
The Seven Liberal Arts Persecuted by Pluto and Bacchus selected.
