Pinacotheca Philosophica
Philosophy and Philosophers in Art
Fabriano Gentile da – see: Gentile da Fabriano
Faithorne William (the Elder) (1616-1691)
· Faithorne William (the Elder). The Academy of Eloquence: Demosthenes, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Francis Bacon, Philip Sidney (1654, London, National Portrait Gallery)
o Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
o Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
· Faithorne William (the Elder). Thomas Hobbes (1668, London, Wellcome Library)
o Thomas Hobbes (detail, enlarged)
Farochon Jean-Baptiste (1812-1871)
· Farochon Jean-Baptiste. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (before 1853, Paris, Louvre)
o Jean-Jacques Rousseau (detail, enlarged)
Fechin Nicolai Ivanovich (1881-1955)
· Fechin. The Philosopher (c. 1937, Washington, Smithsonian American Art Museum)
Feti Domenico (c. 1589-1623)
· Feti. Melancholy (c. 1620, Paris, Musée du Louvre)
· Feti. Melancholy (c. 1622, Venice, Gallerie dell’Accademia)
· Feti. Portrait of a Scholar (Dresden, Gemäldegalerie)
Feuerbach Anselm (1829-1880)
· Feuerbach. Dante in the Underworld
· Feuerbach. Plato’s Symposium (1869, Karlsruhe, Staatliche Kunsthalle)
· Feuerbach. Plato’s Symposium (1873, Berlin, Alte Nationalgalerie)
Févret de Saint-Mémin Charles-Balthazar-Julien (1770-1852)
· Févret de Saint-Mémin. Thomas Jefferson (1804, Worcester, Massachusetts, Art Museum)
Filarete (Antonio di Pietro Averlino, 1400-1469)
· Filarete. Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius (1465, Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen)
Flewelling Ralph Carlin (1894-?)
Mosaics in the Main Reading Room of James Harmon Hoose Library of Philosophy (1929, Los Angeles, The University of Southern California, Mudd Hall of Philosophy; mosaics, except unidentified two, designed by Ralph Carlin Flewelling, subject matter and inscriptions suggested by Ralph Tyler Flewelling, 1871-1960)
· Flewelling Ralph Carlin. Albertus Magnus: The creation in time is a revelation of the eternal acting of God.
· Flewelling Ralph Carlin. Anaxagoras: Mind is infinite and self-ruled.
· Flewelling Ralph Carlin. Aristotle: Dear is Plato, dearer still is truth.
· Flewelling Ralph Carlin. Augustine: Thou hast made us for thyself and our hearts are restless till they rest in thee.
· Flewelling Ralph Carlin. Berkeley: Westward the course of empire takes its way, time’s noblest offspring is the last.
· Flewelling Ralph Carlin. Buddha: To the man who does me wrong I will return the protection of my most ungrudging love.
· Flewelling Ralph Carlin. Confucius: He who knoweth the truth is not as good as he who loveth it: and he who loveth it is not as good as he who delighteth in it.
· Flewelling Ralph Carlin. Democritus: The fatherland of the wise and the good is the whole world.
· Flewelling Ralph Carlin. Descartes: Cogito ergo sum (I think therefore I am).
· Flewelling Ralph Carlin. Emerson: Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force.
· Flewelling Ralph Carlin. Epicurus: If you live according to nature you will never be poor.
· Flewelling Ralph Carlin. Hegel: A nation which has no metaphysics is like a temple possessing no holy of holies.
· Flewelling Ralph Carlin. Heraclitus: For the most part the things divine escape us because of our unbelief.
· Flewelling Ralph Carlin. Kant: Mind is supreme and the universe is but the reflected thought of God.
· Flewelling Ralph Carlin. Leibniz: It is God who is the final reason of things.
· Flewelling Ralph Carlin. Locke: Thinking is the action and not the essence of the soul.
· Flewelling Ralph Carlin. Newton: I have been like a boy playing on the seashore whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
· Flewelling Ralph Carlin. Plato: The first and best victory is to conquer self.
· Flewelling Ralph Carlin. Protagoras: Man is the measure of the universe.
· Flewelling Ralph Carlin. Socrates: No evil can befall a good man either here or hereafter.
· Flewelling Ralph Carlin. Spinoza: To perfect the understanding is nothing else but to understand God.
· Flewelling Ralph Carlin. Thales: It is difficult to know thyself, it is easy to advise others.
· 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)
Foppa Vincenzo (1427/30-1515/16)
· Foppa. Altarpiece (1476, Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera)
o St. Bonaventure (Giovanni di Fidanza, c. 1217-1274)
· Foppa. St. Augustine (1465-1470, Milan, Castello Sforzesco)
· Foppa. The Young Cicero Reading (c. 1464, London, Wallace Collection)
Forsberg Nils (1842-1934)
· Forsberg (after Pierre-Louis Dumesnil). Dispute of Queen Christina of Sweden and René Descartes (1884, Versailles, National Museum)
o Dispute of Queen Christina of Sweden and René Descartes (detail)
Fossano Ambrogio di Stefano, da – see: Borgognone Ambrogio
Fragonard Jean-Honoré (1732-1806)
· Fragonard Jean-Honoré. Portrait of a Man (Denis Diderot) (c. 1769, Paris, Musée du Louvre)
Francia (Francesco di Marco di Giacomo Raibolini, 1450-1517/18)
· Francia. Adoration of the Child (Bologna, Pinacoteca Nazionale)
o St. Augustine (Aurelius Augustinus, 354-430)
o St. Augustine (detail)
· Francia. Madonna del Bentivoglio (Bologna, San Giacomo Maggiore)
o St. Augustine (Aurelius Augustinus, 354-430)
o St. Augustine (detail)
· Francia. Madonna Enthroned with Child and Four Saints: Detail showing St. Augustine (Bologna, Pinacoteca Nazionale)
· Francia. The Infancy and Death of Christ: Detail showing St. Augustine (Bologna, Pinacoteca Nazionale)
Francesco di Cristofano – see: Franciabigio
Franciabigio (Francesco di Cristofano, c. 1482-1525)
· Franciabigio. The Triumph of Cicero (c. 1520, Poggio a Caiano, Villa Medici)
o Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B. C.)
Francken Frans (the Elder) (1542-1616)
· Francken Frans (the Elder). Jesus among the Doctors: Triptych (1587, Antwerp, The Cathedral of Our Lady)
o St. Ambrose Baptising St. Augustine: The triptych left wing
o St. Augustine (Aurelius Augustinus, 354-430)
Francken Frans (the Younger) (1581-1642)
· Francken Frans (the Younger). The Five Senses (1620, private collection)
Furck Sebastian – see Bibliotheca Chalcographica