Raphael

	"Surrounding the mountain on the wall toward the Belvedere, where he showed Mount Parnassus and the fountain of Helicon, Raphael depicted a laurel wood of deep shadows while in the air a host of naked cupids are gathering branches of laurel to make garlands." I-294 (Vasari describes the print after Raphael's first idea by Marcantonio Raimondi - see below) Mount Parnassus (left of doorway)
	Raimondi's print of Raphael's first idea
	"Extremely lifelike are the poets dispersed about the mountain, some standing, some seated, some writing, others discoursing and yet others singing and talking together." I-294 Mount Parnassus (right of doorway)
	"Portrayed from life are all the most celebrated poets of modern and ancient times, including several still alive in Raphael's time." I-294 Horace and other poets
	"there are the nine Muses in one group, together with Apollo; and these figures are so incredibly beautiful that they seem to breathe with grace and life." I-295 Muses
	"We see the learned Sappho and the inspired Dante, the gracious Petrarch and the amorous Boccaccio, all vivaciously depicted." I-295 Sappho
	Dante