Catholic art.

[Rev. Rye]

Are you sure the School of Athens counts as Catholic art? I ask because, of the identifiable figures in the painting, only one (the yellow-cloaked man in the lower left-hand corner who may be Boethius, if he's not Anaximander) is actually even Christian; and even then, his most famous work The Consolation of Philosophy is so steeped in traditional Platonism and divorced from his Catholicism that Arnaldo Momigliano (in an admittedly minority view) seemed to believe that his faith in Christianity had collapsed by the time he wrote it and somehow not even managed to notice.

Yes, it is in the Vatican, but it doesn't even try to have an actual connection with Christianity. Even Michelangelo's David at least claimed some direct connection with King David (at this point, I'm convinced it may originally have started off as a tribute to one of Michelangelo's boyfriends and he just claimed it was King David and hoped the Borgias, likely incuding then-pope Alexander VI, wouldn't have noticed he wasn't circumcised).