While Michelangelo frescoed the vault of the Sistine chapel,
in that same 1508 Raphael began to fresco the Stanze of Julius II,
an enterprise that accompanied him to his death.

The first Stanza to be frescoed was
the Stanza of the Segnatura Gratiae et Iustitiae,
the highest court of the church.

As we know in 1508 Raphael started from the vault
and completed the frescoes in 1511.

The Stanza is dedicated to Neoplatonism,
which at that time was the doctrine followed
by the major humanists of the papal court,
with its categories of True, Beauty and Good.

The first wall frescoed by Raphael was
the one dedicated to Theological True, (or the Dispute),
followed by Philosophical true (the School of Athens),
then Beauty (Parnassus)
and finally Good (Justice).