Pinacotheca Philosophica: Unknown French Artists

 

Pinacotheca Philosophica

Philosophy and Philosophers in Art

 

Unknown Artists

French Artists

·         French Miniaturist (15th century). Boccaccio’s Vision of Petrarch: Illustration from Vol. 2 of Boccaccio’s De Casibus Virorum Illustrium (On the Fates of Famous Men) (1467, Glasgow, Glasgow University LIbrary)

o        Boccaccio’s Vision of Petrarch (detail))

o        Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca, 1304-1374)

o        Other Persons:

§         Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)

·         French Miniaturist (15th century). Fortune and Her Wheel: Illustration from Vol. 1 of Boccaccio’s De Casibus Virorum Illustrium (On the Fates of Famous Men) (1467, Glasgow, Glasgow University LIbrary)

·         French or Flemish Painter (17th or 18th century, after the lost 1649 original by Frans Hals). Ren? Descartes (before 1785, Paris, Mus?e du Louvre)

·         French Painter (18th century, after Maurice-Quentin de La Tour). Fran?ois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire ()

·         French Painter (18th century). Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, marquis de Condorcet (between 1890-1794, Paris, Mus?e Carnavalet)

·         French Painter (18th century, after Jacques-Louis David). The Death of Socrates (Princeton, Princeton University Art Museum)

·         French Sculptor (12th century). Statuettes of the Royal Portal (1150-1170, Chartres, Cathedral)

o        Pythagoras (c. 580 – c. 500 B.C.)

o        Other Persons and Subjects:

§         Aelius Donatus (4th century A. D.)

§         Grammar

§         Music

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

·         French (?) Sculptor (18th century, after Jean-Antoine Houdon). Voltaire (1781, StPetersburg, Hermitage)

·         French Sculptor (19th century). Abelard and H?lo?se Burial (1817, Paris, P?re-Lachaise Cemetery)

o        Abelard and H?lo?se Burial (detail)

o        Abelard and H?lo?se Burial: Sarcophagus

·         French Sculptor (20th century?). Voltaire (Paris, Square Honor? Champion)

o        Voltaire (detail)