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St. Thomas Aquinas
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The painting, "The Triumph of St. Thomas Aquinas" by Benozzo Gozzoli, done in tempera on a panel in 1471, expresses Christ's approval of Aquinas's theological writings: "You have written well about me, Thomas," the inscription below the glory reads. Enthroned between Aristotle and Plato, with the Arabic scholar Averroes, whom he refuted, at his feet, Thomas is overseen in the upper register by the Evangelists, who work with their attributesÑthe lion, eagle, youth and oxÑbeside them. The inscriptions to the left and right of Averroes read "truly here is the light of the Church" and "here he found the entire way of discipline." A papal council fills the bottom register; the pope in the center, Vasari reports, was Sixtus IV.
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