Pinacotheca Philosophica: Artists - B

 

Pinacotheca Philosophica

Philosophy and Philosophers in Art

 

Baciccio (Giovanni Battista Gaulli, 1639-1709)

·         Baciccio. Apotheosis of the Franciscan Order (1707, Rome, Basilica Santi XII Apostoli)

o        St. Bonaventure (Giovanni di Fidanza, c. 1217-1274)

o        John Duns Scotus (c. 1266-1308)

Bakst L?on (Lev Samoylovich Rosenberg, 1866-1924)

·         Bakst. Portrait of the Poet and Writer Andrey Bely (1905, St. Petersburg, The Russian Museum)

·         Bakst. Portrait of the Writer Andrey Bely (Paris)

·         Bakst. Portrait of Zinaida Gippius (wife to DmitrySergeyevich Merezhkovsky, 1866-1941) (1906, Paris)

·         Bakst. The Firebird: Costume for Tamara Karsavina (sister to Lev Platonovich Karsavin, 1885-1978) (1910)

Baldung-Grien Hans (c. 1484-1545)

·         Baldung-Grien. Aristotle and Phyllis (1513, Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum)

Bal?chou Jean-Joseph (1716-1764)

·         Bal?chou (after Maurice-Quentin de La Tour). Portrait of Voltaire: Engraving ()

Barbarelli Giorgio – see: Giorgione

Barbieri Giovanni Francesco – see: Guercino

Bartholom? Paul-Albert (1848-1928)

·         Bartholom?. Truth, Philosophy and Nature: Model of the Sculptural Group for the Monument to Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Pantheon, Paris (between 1907-1912, Paris, Mus?e d’Orsay)

o        Truth, Philosophy and Nature (detail)

o        Truth, Philosophy and Nature (detail enlarged)

o        Nature

o        Nature (detail)

o        Philosophy

o        Philosophy (detail)

o        Truth

o        Truth (detail)

o        Other Subjects:

§         Glory

§         Music

Bartolomeo di Gentile (15th century)

·         Bartolomeo di Gentile. St. Augustine (Urbino, Palazzo Ducale)

Bartolomeo di Giovanni (active 1480-1510)

·         Ghirlandajo Domenico and David and Bartolomeo di Giovanni. Madonna and Child Enthroned between Angels and Saints (c. 1486, Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi)

o        St. Dionysius the Areopagite (1st century A. D.) / Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (5-6th century)

o        St. Thomas Aquinas (1224/25-1274)

Bartolomeo Fra (Baccio della Porta, 1473-1517)

·         Bartolomeo Fra. Portrait of Girolamo Savonarola (c. 1498, Florence, Museo di San Marco)

Beisson Fran?ois Joseph Etienne (1760-1820)

·         Beisson (after Maurice-Quentin de La Tour). Portrait of Voltaire: Etching (1785, New York, The New York Public Library)

Bellini Gentile (c. 1429-1507)

·         Bellini Gentile. Cardinal Bessarion with the Bessarion Reliquary (c. 1472-1473, London, The National Gallery)

o        John Bessarion (1403-1472)

Bellini Giovanni (c. 1430-1516)

·         Bellini Giovanni. Barbarigo Altarpiece (1488, Murano, San Pietro Martire)

o        St. Augustine (Aurelius Augustinus, 354-430)

·         Bellini Giovanni. Frari Triptych (1488, Venice, Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari)

o        St. Nicholas (also identified as St. Augustine)

o        The left panel representing St. Nicholas and St. Peter

·         Bellini Giovanni. Nativity Triptych (1460-1464, Venice, Gallerie dell’Accademia)

o        St. Augustine (Aurelius Augustinus, 354-430)

·         Bellini Giovanni. St. Augustine (c. 1470, Paris, Mus?e du Louvre)

·         Bellini Giovanni. Sts. Christopher, Jerome and Ludwig of Toulouse (1513, Venice, S. Giovanni Crisostomo)

o        St. Ludwig of Toulouse (erroneously identified as St. Augustine)

Benouville Jean-Achille (1815-1891)

·         Benouville. Abelard Talking to His Students near Melun (1837, Munich, Neue Pinakothek)

o        Peter Abelard (Pierre Ab?lard, 1079-1142)

Benvenuti Giovanni Battista – see : Ortolano

Bernini Gian Lorenzo (1598-1680)

·         Bernini Gian Lorenzo. Cathedra Petri (Altar of the Chair of St. Peter) (1657-1666, Rome, Vatican, Basilica di San Pietro)

o        St. Augustine (Aurelius Augustinus, 354-430)

o        St. Augustine (detail)

o        St. Augustine (detail, enlarged)

·         Bernini Gian Lorenzo. Truth (1645-1652, Rome, Galleria Borghese)

Berruguete Pedro (1450-1504)

·         Joos van Ghent and Berruguete Pedro. Ptolemy (c. 1474, Paris, Mus?e du Louvre)

Biagio Bernardino, di – see: Pinturicchio

Bigordi Domenico di Tommaso – see: Ghirlandajo Domenico

Blake William (1757-1827)

·         Blake William. Isaac Newton (1795, London, Tate Gallery)

Blanc Charles (1813-1882)

·         Blanc Charles (after Paul Delaroche). Portrait of Guizot (Paris, Mus?e du Louvre)

Bloemaert Abraham (1564-1651)

·         Bloemaert. The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche (c. 1595, Windsor, The Royal Collection)

Following its handling by the Platonic philosopher Lucius Apuleius in his famous novel The Golden Ass (2nd century A.D.), the story of Cupid and Psyche was often interpreted as an allegory of the Soul guided by Love towards her true destination in the spiritual world.

Blommendael Reyer van (1628-1675)

·         Blommendael Reyer. Xantippe Dousing Socrates (c. 1665, Strasbourg, Mus?e des Beaux-Arts)

Bonaiuti, Andrea – see: Andrea da Firenze

Boissard Jean Jacques (1528-1602) – see Bibliotheca Chalcographica

Bonnat L?on-Joseph-Florentin (1833-1922)

·         Bonnat L?on. Portrait of Ernest Renan (Paris, Mus?e du Louvre)

Bonone Carlo (1569-1632)

·         Bonone. Christ Adored by Angels, St. Sebastian and St. Bonaventure (c. 1610-1617, Paris, Mus?e du Louvre)

o        St. Bonaventure (Giovanni di Fidanza, c. 1217-1274)

Bonvicino Alessandro – see: Moretto da Brescia

Borgognone Ambrogio (Ambrogio di Stefano da Fossano, Ambrogio Bergognone, c. 1453-1523)

·         Borgognone. St. Augustine with a Kneeling Donor (c. 1494, Paris, Mus?e du Louvre)

Borgo?a Juan, de (1495-1533)

·         Borgo?a. The Doctors of the Church: St. Gregory and St. Augustine (Barnard Castle, County Durham, The Bowes Museum)

o        St. Augustine (Aurelius Augustinus, 354-430)

o        Other persons:

§         The Doctors of the Church: St. Jerome and St. Ambrose (the other panel)

Bosch Hi?ronymus (Heronimus Bos, Jerome van Aeken, Jeroen Anthoniszoon, c. 1450-1516)

·         Bosch. The Ship of Fools (1490-1500, Paris, Mus?e du Louvre)

Bossi Gabriele ()

·         Bossi Gabriele. St. Augustine (Milan, Basilica di San Lorenzo, Cappella di Sant’Aqulino)

Botticelli Sandro (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi) (1447-1515)

·         Botticelli. La Primavera (Allegory of Spring) (1477-1478, Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi)

The painting is a Neoplatonic allegory depicting the Soul’s ascension from the material to the spiritual world. The central figure is Venus embodying celestial (Platonic) Love. On the right, the nymph Chloris is pursued by Zephyr (this allusion to an episode from Ovid’ Fasti, Book 5, 195-212, “May 3”, symbolises the Soul’s enslavement by worldly passions), but manages to escape and is transformed into Goddess Flora portrayed as La Primavera (the Spring; the escape symbolizes liberation of the Soul and her reunion with the Divine). On the left, the three Graces are blessed by Venus; they are, from right to left, Pulchritudo (Beauty), Chastitas (Chastity), and Voluptas (Pleasure). Voluptas’ eyes are fixed on Pulchritudo, for Beauty is the true source of Pleasure. Eros above is aiming his arrow at Chastitas who has turned her back to the mundane world (and to us, the spectators) and is looking at Mercury who, as Hermes Trismegistos, is the embodiment of Wisdom in the Neoplatonic Tradition. Mercury is holding the caduceus, his magic staff held to symbolise secret Knowledge.

o        Chastitas

o        Chloris

o        Eros

o        Flora (La Primavera)

o        Mercury (Hermes Trismegistos)

o        Pulchritudo

o        Venus

o        Voluptas

o        Zephyr

·         Botticelli. Madonna Enthroned with Saints: San Barnaba Altarpiece (1490, Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi)

o        St. Augustine (Aurelius Augustinus, 354-430)

·         Botticelli. Portrait of Dante (c. 1495, Geneva, Private Collection)

·         Botticelli. Portrait of Lorenzo di Ser Piero Lorenzi (1490-1495, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art)

·         Botticelli. St. Augustine (c. 1480, Florence, Ognissanti)

·         Botticelli. St. Augustine in His Cell: Scene on the predella panel of the San Marco Altarpiece (c. 1490-1492, Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi)

·         Botticelli. St. Augustine in the Cell (c. 1490-1494, Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi)

·         Botticelli. The Coronation of the Virgin with the Saints John the Evangelist, Augustine, Jerome and Eligius: San Marco Altarpiece (c. 1490-1492, Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi)

o        Saints John the Evangelist, Augustine, Jerome and Eligius: Detail of San Marco Altarpiece

o        St. Augustine (Aurelius Augustinus, 354-430)

·         Botticelli. The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Canto XVIII (1480s, Berlin, Staatliche Museen)

o        The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Canto XVIII (detail)

o        Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

o        Other persons:

§         Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro, 70-19 B.C.)

·         Botticelli. The Divine Comedy: Purgatory, Canto X (1490s, Berlin, Staatliche Museen)

o        Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

o        Other persons:

§         Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro, 70-19 B.C.)

·         Botticelli. The Divine Comedy: Paradiso, Canto XXX (1490s, Berlin, Staatliche Museen)

o        Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

o        Other persons:

§         Beatrice Portinari (1266-1290)

·         Botticelli. Transfiguration with St. Jerome and St. Augustine (c. 1500, Rome, Galleria Pallavicini)

o        St. Augustine (Aurelius Augustinus, 354-430)

·         Botticelli. Vision of St. Augustine (c. 1488, Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi)

Botticini Francesco (1446-1497)

·         Botticini. St. Monica and St. Augustine (Florence, Galleria dell’Accademia)

Bouguereau Adolphe-William (1825-1905)

·         Bouguereau. Dante and Virgil in Hell (1850)

o        Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

o        Other persons:

§         Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro, 70-19 B.C.)

Bramante Donato (1444-1514)

·         Bramante. Heracleitus and Democritus (1477, Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera)

o        Democritus: laughing’ philosopher] (c. 460 – c. 370 B.C.)[o:p>

o        Heracleitus: crying’ philosopher] (c. 540 – c. 480 B.C.)[o:p>

Bregno Andrea (1421-1506)

·         Bregno Andrea. Monument of Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa (Rome, S. Pietro in Vincoli)

Brena ()

·         Brena. St. Augustine and St. Jerome (Genga, San Gerolamo Church)

o        St. Augustine (Aurelius Augustinus, 354-430)

Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo, 1503-1572)

·         Bronzino. Allegorical Portrait of Dante (c. 1530, Washington, National Gallery of Art)

·         Bronzino. Allegory of Happiness (1564, Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi)

Brown Ford Madox (1821-1893)

·         Brown Ford Madox. John Wycliffe Reading His Translation of the Bible to John of Gaunt (1847-1861, Bradford, Bradford Art Galleries and Museums)

o        John Wycliffe (c. 1330-1384)

·         Brown Ford Madox. Work (1852-1865, Manchester, Manchester City Art Galleries)

o        Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

o        Frederick Denison Maurice (1805-1872)

Bry Johann Israel, de (1570-1611) – see Bibliotheca Chalcographica

Bry Johann Theodor, de (1561-1623) – see Bibliotheca Chalcographica

Bry Theodor, de (1528-1598) – see Bibliotheca Chalcographica

Bryullov Karl Pavlovich (1799-1852)

·         Bryullov Karl. Portrait of V. A. Zhukovsky (granduncle to Ivan Vasilyevich Kireyevsky, 1783-1852) (1837)

Bury Johann Friedrich (1763-1823)

·         Bury Johann Friedrich. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1800, Weimar, The Weimar Classics Foundation)

·         Bury Johann Friedrich. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe among His Italian Friends ()

·         Tischbein Johann Heinrich Wilhelm, Sch?tz Christian Georg, Bury Johann Friedrich. Goethe in the Roman Campagna (c. 1787, Weimar, The Goethe National Museum)