Pinacotheca Philosophica: Philosophers - D

 

Pinacotheca Philosophica

Philosophy and Philosophers in Art

 

Dai Zhen (Dong Yuan, 1723-1777)

·         Unknown Artist (20th century). Dai Zhen

Damascene Johnsee: John of Damascus

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

Dante’s images are listed on a separate page.

Demetrius Chalcondyles (1424-1511)

·         Ghirlandajo Domenico. Angel Appearing to Zacharias (1486-1490, Florence, Santa Maria Novella, Cappella Tornabuoni)

o        Members of the Platonic Academy

o        Members of the Platonic Academy (enlarged)

§         Demetrius Chalcondyles (1424-1511, sometimes identified as Gentile de’ Becchi)

Demetrius of Phaleron (Demetrius Phalereus, c. 350 B.C. – c. 280 B.C.)

·         Lebiedzki (after design by Karl Rahl). Aristotle and His Disciples: Detail of the Right-hand Fa?ade Mural (Athens, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

o        Demetrius of Phaleron (c. 350 – c. 280 B.C.)

Democritus (c. 460 – c. 370 B.C.)

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

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

·         Carracci Agostino. Democritus (1598, Naples, Museo e Gallerie Nazionali di Capodimonte)

·         Corot. Democritus and the Abderites (1841, Nantes, Mus?e des Beaux-Arts)

o        Democritus (c. 460 – c. 370 B.C.)

·         Coypel. Democritus (1692, Paris, Mus?e du Louvre)

·         Flewelling Ralph Carlin. Democritus: The fatherland of the wise and the good is the whole world: 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).

·         Mart?nez del Mazo. Democritus: a copy of the painting by Peter Paul Rubens (Madrid, Museo del Prado)

·         Ribera. Democritus (London, private collection)

·         Rosa. Democritus and Protagoras (c. 1663-1664, St. Petersburg, The Hermitage)

o        Democritus (c. 460 – c. 370 B.C.)

·         Rosa. Democritus in Meditation (c. 1650, Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst)

·         Rubens. Democritus (1603, Madrid, Museo del Prado)

o        Mart?nez del Mazo. Democritus: a copy of the painting by Peter Paul Rubens (Madrid, Museo del Prado)

·         Rubens. Democritus and Heracleitus (Valladolid, The National Museum of Religious Sculpture)

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

·         Terbrugghen. Democritus (1628, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum)

o        Compare to Terbrugghen. Heracleitus (1628, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum).

·         Vel?zquez. Democritus (1628/29, Rouen, Mus?e des Beaux-Arts)

·         Vincent Fran?ois Andr?. Democritus among the Abderites (c. 1790, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art)

o        Democritus (c. 460 – c. 370 B.C.)

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

Descartes Ren? (1596-1650)

·         Flewelling Ralph Carlin. Descartes: Cogito ergo sum (I think therefore I am): 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).

·         Hals. Ren? Descartes (c. 1649, Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst)

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

·         Pajou. Ren? Descartes (1777, Paris, Mus?e du Louvre)

·         Vasco. Ren? Descartes (© Vasco)

·         Unidentified Artist (17th century). Ren? Descartes (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1664)

Dewey John (1859-1952)

·         Hare. John Dewey (2003)

Diderot Denis (1713-1784)

·         Collot. Denis Diderot (1772, St. Petersburg, Hermitage)

·         Fragonard Jean-Honor?. Portrait of a Man (Denis Diderot) (c. 1769, Paris, Mus?e du Louvre)

·         Houdon. Bust of Denis Diderot (1771, Paris, Mus?e du Louvre)

o        Bust of Denis Diderot (detail)

·         Houdon. Bust of Denis Diderot (1771, New Haven, Seymour Collection)

·         Houdon. Bust of Denis Diderot (c. 1771, Troyes, Mus?e des Beaux-Arts)

·         Houdon. Bust of Denis Diderot (1773, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art)

·         Houdon. Bust of Denis Diderot (1773, private collection)

·         Houdon. Bust of Denis Diderot (1775, Paris, Mus?e du Louvre)

·         Pigalle. Diderot (1777, Paris, Mus?e du Louvre)

o        Diderot (detail)

·         Van Loo Louis-Michel. Denis Diderot (1767, Paris, Mus?e du Louvre)

Diogenes of Babylonsee: Diogenes of Seleucia

Diogenes of Seleucia (Diogenes of Babylon, c. 240-150 B. C.)

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

Diogenes of Sinope (d. c. 320 B.C.)

·         Castiglione. The Fable of Diogenes (Madrid Museo del Prado)

o        Diogenes (died c. 320 B.C.)

·         Crayer. Alexander and Diogenes (Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum)

o        Diogenes (died c. 320 B.C.)

·         Everdingen Caesar. Diogenes Seeks a True Man (1652, The Hague, Mauritshuis)

·         Flewelling Ralph Carlin. Diogenes in Search for an Honest Man (1928, Los Angeles, The University of Southern California, Mudd Hall of Philosophy)

o        Diogenes in Search for an Honest Man (an alternative view)

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

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

·         Lespagnandelle. Diogenes (btw. 1685-1686, Versailles, The Versailles Park and Gardens)

·         Pajou. Diogenes in Search for Man (1781, Paris, Mus?e du Louvre)

·         Poussin. Landscape with Diogenes (c. 1647, Paris, Mus?e du Louvre)

o        Diogenes (died c. 320 B.C.)

·         Puget. The Meeting of Alexander the Great and Diogenes (c. 1692, Paris, Mus?e du Louvre)

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

o        Diogenes (died c. 320 B.C.)

o        Diogenes (detail, enlarged)

·         Restout. Diogenes Asking the Statues for Alms (1765, Toulouse, Mus?e des Augustins)

·         Ribera. Diogenes with His Lantern (1637, Dresden, The Dresden Gallery)

·         Rosa. Diogenes Casting Away His Cup (1650s, private collection)

·         Waterhouse. Diogenes (1882, Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales)

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

·         Italian Artist (20th century?). Diogenes and Alexander the Great: A dish from Urbino

o        Diogenes (died c. 320 B.C.)

Dionysius the Areopagite (1st century A.D.)

Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (5-6th century)

·         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)

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

·         Raphael. St. Paul Preaching in Athens (1515, London, Victoria and Albert Museum)

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

·         Raphael. Study for St. Paul Preaching in Athens (1514-1515, Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi)

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

·         German Artist (17th century). St. Dionysius the Areopagite: Illustration from Πατρολογια, id est Descriptio S. Patrum Gr?corum & Latinorum (1624, Augsburg)

Dionysius the Carthusian (Denys van Leeuwen, Denys van Rijkel, Doctor Ecstaticus, 1402-1471)

·         Christus Petrus. Portrait of a Carthusian (presumed to be Dionysius the Carthusian) (1446, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Dong Yuan – see: Dai Zhen

Donne John (1572-1631)

·         Stone Nicholas (the Elder). Monument to the Poet John Donne: General view (1631, London, St. Paul’s Cathedral)

o        Monument to the Poet John Donne: Effigy

o        Monument to the Poet John Donne: Effigy (detail)

Dostoyevsky Fyodor Mikhaylovich (1821-1881)

·         Perov. Portrait of the Author Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1872, Moscow, The Tretyakov Gallery)

Duns Scotus John (Doctor Subtilis, c. 1266-1308)

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

o        John Duns Scotus (c. 1266-1308)

·         Raphael. La Disputa (1509, Rome, Vatican, Stanza della Segnatura)

o        John Duns Scotus (c. 1266-1308)