(Red Journal, Volume 124, Issue 3, March 2026)

The painting is an exploration into history and the intersections of art, science, and philosophy/ethics. The internalized and externalized exchange between these four domains is what Darcelle believes enables the positive progression of civilization.

The original fresco by Raphael portrays the coexistence and collaboration amongst artists, philosophers, and scientists such as; Plato (Leonardo da Vinci), Aristotle, Diogenes, Zeno of Citium, Epicurus, Averroes, Pythagoras, Alcibiades/Alexander the Great, Hypatia, Aeschines/Xenophon, Parmenides (Leonardo da Vinci), Socrates, Heraclitus (Michelangelo), Plotinus, Euclid/Archimedes, Strabo/Zoroaster, Ptolemy, and Apelles (Raphael).

And in Darcelle’s signature theme of making paintings of paintings, Darcelle has placed the three pioneers of radiation examining Raphael’s fresco, where they are seen in a dialogue about those who have paved the ways of the world to where they are then.

However, despite all the roles in this painting, the main subject of Darcelle’s painting is you. It is about your gazing back into the past, seeing the ideas/stories shared, learned, taught, and challenged through its iterations, how it all brought us to now, and what we must continue to do.