Pinacotheca Philosophica: Philosophers - E

 

Pinacotheca Philosophica

Philosophy and Philosophers in Art

 

Emerson Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)

·         Flewelling Ralph Carlin. Emerson: Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force: A Mosaic in the Main Reading Room of James Harmon Hoose Library of Philosophy (1929, Los Angeles, The University of Southern California, Mudd Hall of Philosophy).

Empedocles (c. 490-430 B. C.)

·         Signorelli. Empedocles (1499-1502, Orvieto, Duomo, Chapel of San Brizio)

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

·         Roman Sculptor (after the Greek original of late 3rd – early 2nd century B. C.). Epicurus (London, The British Museum)

Epicurus (341-270 B.C.)

·         Flewelling Ralph Carlin. Epicurus: If you live according to nature you will never be poor: A Mosaic in the Main Reading Room of James Harmon Hoose Library of Philosophy (1929, Los Angeles, The University of Southern California, Mudd Hall of Philosophy).

·         Puget. Philosopher (1662, Cleveland, Museum of Art)

Not identified, possibly Chrysippus, Epicurus or Socrates.

·         Raphael. The School of Athens (1510-1511, Rome, Vatican, Stanza della Segnatura)

o        Epicurus (341-270 B.C.)

o        Epicurus (detail – portrait of Tommaso Inghirami?)

o        Epicurus (detail, enlarged)

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

·         Greek (Greco-Roman?) Sculptor. Epicurean Philosophers’ Double Herm: Epicurus and Metrodorus (Paris, Mus?e du Louvre)

o        Epicurus (341-270 B.C.)

·         Roman Sculptor (after the Greek original of late 3rd – early 2nd century B. C.). Epicurus (London, The British Museum)

Erasmus of Rotterdam (Desiderius Erasmus, 1469-1536)

·         Cowper Frank Cadogan. Erasmus and Thomas More Visit the Children of Henry VII at Greenwich, 1499 (1910, London, The Houses of Parliament)

o        Erasmus of Rotterdam (Desiderius Erasmus, 1469-1536)

·         D?rer. Erasmus of Rotterdam (1526, Washington, National Gallery of Art)

·         D?rer. Portrait of Erasmus (c. 1520, Paris, Mus?e du Louvre)

·         Holbein Hans (the Younger). Erasmus (1523, Paris, Mus?e du Louvre)

·         Holbein Hans (the Younger). Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam (1523, London, National Gallery)

·         Holbein Hans (the Younger). Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam (1530, Parma, Galleria Nazionale)

·         Holbein Hans (the Younger). Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam in a Round Frame (1532, Basel, Kunstmuseum)

·         Holbein Hans (the Younger). Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam Writing (1523, Basle, Kunstmuseum, ?ffentliche Kunstsammlung)

·         Holbein Hans (the Younger). Studies of the Hands of Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1523, Paris, Mus?e du Louvre)

·         Massys. Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam (1517, Rome, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica)

·         Schmalz. A Man for All Seasons: St. Thomas More (Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, the artist’s property)

o        The Four Seasons: Four tondi with life scenes in the tree crown

§         Spring: The First Meeting with Erasmus in the London House (lower left)

More first met Erasmus during the latter’s visit to England in 1499.

·         Unidentified Artist (17th century). Desiderius Erasmus (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1669)

Eucleides of Megara (died after 369 B. C.)

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