Pinacotheca Philosophica: Philosophers - Aurelius Marcus

 

Pinacotheca Philosophica

Philosophy and Philosophers in Art

 

Aurelius Marcus (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, original name Marcus Annius Verus, 121-180 A. D.)

·         Chass?riau. Study of the Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius (Paris, Mus?e du Louvre)

·         Delacroix. The Last Words of Emperor Marcus Aurelius (1844, Lyon, Mus?e des Beaux-Arts)

·         Delacroix. The Limbo: Cupola Painting (1841-1846, Paris, Palais du Luxembourg: The Senate Library)

o        The Limbo: Cupola Painting (viewed from a different perspective)

o        Famous Romans (detail)

o        Famous Romans (detail enlarged)

§         Marcus Aurelius (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, 121-180 A. D.)

·         Filarete. Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius (1465, Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen)

·         Giorgione (completed by Sebastiano del Piombo). The Three Philosophers (c. 1510, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum)

o        Marcus Aurelius (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, 121-180 A. D., identification purely conjectural)

·         Pannini. Architectural Ruins with the Arch of Janus, the Temple of Vesta and the Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius (1743, Paris, Mus?e du Louvre)

Pannini’s capriccio brings together a number of architectural monuments from different areas of ancient Rome.

·         Puget. Bust of Marcus Aurelius (before 1689, Genoa, Museo di Sant’Agostino)

·         Rubens. Portrait of Jan Gaspar Gevartius (c. 1628, Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten)

o        The Bust of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 A. D.

·         Vien Joseph-Marie. Marcus Aurelius Distributing Bread to the People (1765, Amiens, Mus?e de Picardie)

·         French Sculptor (late 17th – early 18th century). Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (early 18th century, Versailles, The Versailles Park and Gardens)

·         German Artist (19th century). Marcus Aurelius: Illustration from Galerie der alten Griechen und R?mer (1801, Augsburg)

·         Greek (Greco-Roman?) Sculptor (2nd century A. D.). Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (c. 161 A. D., Paris, Mus?e du Louvre)

·         Roman Sculptor (2nd century A. D.). Bronze Portrait of Emperor Marcus Aurelius (btw. 170-180 A. D., Paris, Mus?e du Louvre)

·         Roman Sculptor (2nd century A. D.). Bust of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius (btw. 161-180 A. D., Istanbul, Archeological Museum)

·         Roman Sculptor (2nd century A. D.). Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius (btw. 161-180 A. D., Rome, The Capitoline Museum)

o        Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius (contemporary copy, Rome, The Capitol)

·         Roman Sculptor (2nd century A. D.). Marcus Aurelius (Ephesus, Archeological Museum)

·         Roman Sculptor (2nd century A. D.). Portrait of Marcus Aurelius (btw. 161-180 A. D., Rome, The Capitoline Museum)

·         Roman Sculptor (2nd century A. D.). Portrait of Marcus Aurelius about the Time of His Adoption by Antoninus Pius (138 A. D., Paris, Mus?e du Louvre)

·         Roman Sculptor (2nd century A. D.). Statue of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius (btw. 161-180 A. D., Istanbul, Archeological Museum)

·         Roman Sculptor (2nd century A. D.). The Emperor Hadrian Surrounded by His Adopted Son, the Future Emperor Antoninus Pius and the Latter’s Adopted Sons Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus (btw. 161-180 A. D., Ephesus, Archeological Museum)

o        Marcus Aurelius (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, 121-180 A. D., Roman emperor from 161 to 180)

o        Other persons:

§         Antoninus Pius (Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, original name Titus Aurelius Fulvius Boionius Arrius Antoninus, 86-161 A. D., Roman emperor from 138 to 161)

§         Hadrian (Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, original name Publius Aelius Hadrianus, 76-138 A. D., Roman emperor from 117 to 138)

§         Lucius Verus (Lucius Aurelius Verus, original name Lucius Ceionius Commodus, 130-169 A. D., Marcus Aurelius’ co-emperor, from 161 to 169)

·         Roman Sculptor (2nd century A. D.). The Emperor Marcus Aurelius (c. 180-183 A. D., Paris, Mus?e du Louvre)

·         Roman Sculptor (2nd century A. D.). Triumph of Marcus Aurelius: Relief from the Honorary Monument to Marcus Aurelius (btw. 176-180 A. D., Rome, Palazzo dei Conservatori)

·         Unknown Sculptor. Marcus Aurelius (Rome, The Colosseum)

·         Persons related to Marcus Aurelius:

o        Roman Sculptor (2nd century A. D.). Portrait of the Empress Faustina the Younger (wife to Marcus Aurelius, c. 125-176 A. D.) (btw. 161-180 A. D., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art)