Pinacotheca Philosophica: Artists - G

 

Pinacotheca Philosophica

Philosophy and Philosophers in Art

 

Gandolfi Gaetano (1734-1802)

·         Gandolfi Gaetano. Allegory of Justice (btw. 1760-1762, Paris, Mus?e du Louvre)

·         Gandolfi Gaetano. Diogenes and Alexander (1792, Z?rich, Private Collection)

·         Gandolfi Gaetano. The Death of Socrates (1782, Bologna, Private Collection)

Crito, when he heard this, made a sign to the servant, and the servant went in, and remained for some time, and then returned with the jailer carrying a cup of poison. Socrates said: “You, my good friend, who are experienced in these matters, shall give me directions how I am to proceed.” The man answered: “You have only to walk about until your legs are heavy, and then to lie down, and the poison will act.” At the same time he handed the cup to Socrates, who in the easiest and gentlest manner, without the least fear or change of colour or feature, looking at the man with all his eyes, Echecrates, as his manner was, took the cup and said: “What do you say about making a libation out of this cup to any god? May I, or not?” The man answered: “We only prepare, Socrates, just so much as we deem enough.” “I understand,” he said: “yet I may and must pray to the gods to prosper my journey from this to that other world – may this, then, which is my prayer, be granted to me”. Then holding the cup to his lips, quite readily and cheerfully he drank off the poison (Plato, Phaedo).

Gaulli Giovanni Battista see: Baciccio

Gay Nikolay Nikolayevich (1831-1894)

·         Gay. Portrait of Leo Tolstoy (1884, Moscow, The Tretyakov Gallery)

·         Gay. Portrait of Maria Tolstaya (daughter to Leo Tolstoy, 1871-1906) (1891, Tula Region, Yasnaya Polyana: Leo Tolstoy Memorial Estate)

·         Gay. Portrait of Sophia Andreyevna Tolstaya with Her Daughter Alexandra (Sophia Tolstaya, wife to Leo Tolstoy, 1844-1919; Alexandra Tolstaya, daughter to Leo Tolstoy, 1884-1979) (1886, Tula Region, Yasnaya Polyana: Leo Tolstoy Memorial Estate)

·         Gay. Portrait of Tatyana Tolstaya (daughter to Leo Tolstoy, 1864-1950) (1887, Tula Region, Yasnaya Polyana: Leo Tolstoy Memorial Estate)

·         Gay. Portrait of the Author Alexander Herzen (1867, Moscow, The Tretyakov Gallery)

o        Alexander Herzen (detail)

·         Gay. Quod est veritas: Christ and Pilate (1890, Moscow, The Tretyakov Gallery)

Gentile da Fabriano (Niccol? di Giovanni di Massio, c. 1370-1427)

·         Gentile da Fabriano. Coronation of the Virgin (c. 1400, Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera)

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

Gentileschi Orazio (Lomi Orazio, 1563-1639)

·         Gentileschi Orazio. Cupid and Psyche (1628-1630, St. Petersburg, The Hermitage)

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.

Gerard Fran?ois (1770-1837)

·         Gerard Fran?ois. Cupid and Psyche (1798, Paris, Mus?e du Louvre)

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.

G?r?me Jean-L?on (1824-1904)

·         G?r?me. Dante (He Hath Seen Hell) (Private Collection)

·         G?r?me. Dante Meditating in the Cascina Gardens (Paris, Mus?e du Louvre)

·         G?r?me. Diogenes (1860, Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery)

·         G?r?me. Socrates Seeking Alcibiades in the House of Aspasia (1861, Private Collection)

Ghirlandajo Domenico (Domenico di Tommaso Bigordi, 1449-1494)

Ghirlandajo’s paintings are listed on a separate page.

Giordano Luca (1632-1705)

·         Giordano. A Cynical Philosopher (Munich, Alte Pinakothek)

·         Giordano. Psyche Honoured by the People (btw. 1692-1702, Windsor Castle, 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.

·         Giordano. Psyche Served by Invisible Spirits (btw. 1692-1702, Windsor Castle, The Royal Collection)

·         Giordano. Psyche’s Parents Offering Sacrifice to Apollo (btw. 1692-1702, Windsor Castle, The Royal Collection)

·         Giordano. The Philosopher Crates (c. 1650, Rome, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica)

·         Giordano. Venus Punishing Psyche with a Task (btw. 1692-1702, Windsor Castle, The Royal Collection)

Giorgione (Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco) (1477-1510)

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

o        Aristotle (384-321 B.C., identification purely conjectural)

o        Averro?s (Ibn Rushd, 1126-1198, identification purely conjectural)

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

o        Plato’s Cave (identification purely conjectural)

Giotto di Bondone (1267-1337)

·         Giotto. The Doctors of the Church (1279-1300, Assisi, San Francesco, Upper Church)

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

Giovanni d’Alemagna (d. 1450)

·         Giovanni d’Alemagna and Antonio Vivarini. Triptych (1446, Venice, Gallerie dell’Accademia)

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

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni del Poggio) (c. 1403-1483)

·         Giovanni di Paolo. Paradise (mid-15th century, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

o        St. Thomas Aquinas (1224/1225-1274)

o        St. Thomas Aquinas (detail, enlarged)

·         Giovanni di Paolo. St. Augustine (2nd half of the 15th century, Avignon, Mus?e du Petit Palais)

·         Giovanni di Paolo. St. Augustine’s Vision of St. Jerome (c. 1465, Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gem?ldegalerie)

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

·         Giovanni di Paolo. St. Thomas Aquinas Confounding Averro?s (c. 1445–50, Saint Louis, Missouri, Art Museum)

o        Averro?s (Ibn Rushd, 1126-1198)

o        St. Thomas Aquinas (1224/1225-1274)

·         Giovanni di Paolo. The First Circle of the Twelve Teachers of Wisdom Led by Thomas Aquinas: Illustration of Dante’s Paradiso, Canto X (btw. 1442-1450, London, The British Library)

o        Albertus Magnus (c. 1200-1280)

o        Bede the Venerable (672/673-735)

o        Boethius (480-524)

o        Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

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

o        Isidore of Seville (c. 560-636)

o        Peter Lombard (c. 1100 – c. 1160)

o        Richard of St. Victor (c. 1123-1173)

o        Siger of Brabant (c. 1235 – c. 1282)

o        Thomas Aquinas (1224/1225-1274)

o        Other Persons:

§         Johannes Gratian (12th century)

§         Paulus Orosius (c. 380 – c. 420)

§         Solomon (btw. 981-979 – btw. 938-916 B.C.)

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

Girodet de Roucy-Triosson Anne-Louis (1767-1824)

·         Girodet-Triosson. Fran?ois-Ren? de Chateaubriand (1809, private collection)

Gisberto Ugolino, di see: Ugolino di Gisberto

Goethe Johann Wolfgang, von (1749-1832)

·         Goethe. Goethe’s Study in Frankfurt (c. 1769/72, Weimar, The Weimar Classics Foundation)

·         Goethe. Self Portrait (c. 1777, Weimar, The Weimar Classics Foundation)

Golovin Aleksandr Yakovlevich (1863-1930)

·         Golovin Aleksandr. Portrait of Nikolay Konstantinovich Roerikh (detail) (1907, Moscow, The Tretyakov Gallery)

Gozzoli Benozzo (Benozzo di Lese di Sandro, c. 1420-1497)

Gozzoli’s paintings are listed on a separate page.

Greaves Walter (1846-1930)

·         Greaves. Portrait of Thomas Carlyle Wearing a Hat (private collection)

Greco, El (Dom?nikos Theotok?poulos, 1541-1614)

·         Greco, El. Antonio de Covarrubias (c. 1600, Paris, Mus?e du Louvre)

·         Greco, El. Diego de Covarrubias (brother to Antonio de Covarrubias y Leiva, 1512-1577) (c. 1600, Toledo, Museo de El Greco)

·         Greco, El. The Burial of Count Orgaz (1586, Toledo, Santo Tom?)

o        Antonio de Covarrubias y Leiva (1524-1602)

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

Greuter Johann Friedrich (1590/1593-1663)

·         Greuter Johann Friedrich (after Giovanni Francesco Romanelli). Socrates and His Students (San Francisco, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts 1963.30.36658)

o        Socrates and His Students: Detail

Grigoryev Boris Dmitriyevich (1886-1939)

·         Grigoryev Boris. Portrait of the Artist Nikolay Konstantinovich Roerikh (1917, Moscow, The Tretyakov Gallery)

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, 1591-1666)

·         Guercino. A Donor Presented to the Virgin (1616, Brussels, Mus?es Royaux des Beaux-Arts)

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

·         Guercino. St. Augustine (Rome, S. Pietro in Vincoli)

·         Guercino. St. Augustine, St. John the Baptist and St. Paul the Hermit (Rome, S. Agostino in Campo Marzio)

·         Guercino. St. Augustine Washing the Feet of the Redeemer (Rome, S. Agostino in Campo Marzio)

Guignet Adrien (1816-1854)

·         Guignet. Episode of the Retreat of the Ten Thousand (c. 1843, Paris, Mus?e du Louvre)