LIPPI, Filippino
(b. ca. 1457, Prato, d. 1504, Firenze)

Triumph of St Thomas Aquinas over the Heretics (detail)

1489-91
Fresco
Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome

In the background the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius (today on the Capitoline Hill) can be seen in its original site in front of the basilica of San Giovanni Laterano.

In the foreground are the defeated heretics, among which can be identified Arius, Apollinarius, and Averroes.