Pinacotheca Philosophica
Philosophy and Philosophers in Art
LaFarge John (1835-1910)
· LaFarge. Father Hecker Reading Goethe (1866, private collection)
· LaFarge. Portrait of Henry James, the Novelist (brother to William James, 1843-1916) (1862, New York, The Century Association)
· LaFarge. The Golden Age (1878-1879, Washington, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution)
· LaFarge. The Recording of Precedents: Confucius and His Pupils Collate and Transcribe Documents in Their Favorite Grove: Study for a Supreme Court Room Mural, Minnesota State Capitol, Saint Paul (1903, private collection)
· LaFarge. The Relation of the Individual to the State: Socrates and His Friends Discuss “The Republic”: Study for a Supreme Court Room Mural, Minnesota State Capitol, Saint Paul (1903, private collection)
· LaFarge. The Wheel of Fortune (1900, private collection)
Lairesse Gerard de (1640-1711)
· Lairesse. Allegory of the Five Senses (1668, Glasgow, Art Gallery and Museum)
Lamberti Niccolò di Piero (il Pela, 1370-1451)
· Lamberti Niccolò di Piero. St. Augustine, Doctor of the Church (btw. 1396-1401, Florence, The Museum of the Opera del Duomo)
Lanfranco Giovanni (Giovanni di Steffano, il Cavaliere Giovanni Lanfranchi, 1582-1647)
· Lanfranco. St. Augustine Confronting the Heresy (Rome, Sant’Agostino Church)
· Lanfranco. St. Augustine Meditating the Mystery of the Holy Trinity (Rome, Sant’Agostino Church)
· La Perdrix. A Melancholic (1680, Versailles, The Versailles Park and Gardens)
Larkin William (early 1580s – 1619)
· Larkin William. Portrait of Sir Francis Bacon (c. 1610, private collection)
· Larkin William. Portrait of Sir Francis Bacon (c. 1617, Cambridge, Trinity College)
Lassalle Emile (1813-1871)
· Lassalle Emile (after Paul Delaroche). Portrait of Guizot (Paris, Musée du Louvre)
La Tour Maurice-Quentin, de (1704-1788)
· La Tour Maurice-Quentin. François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1735)
o Baléchou (after Maurice-Quentin de La Tour). Portrait of Voltaire: Engraving
o Beisson (after Maurice-Quentin de La Tour). Portrait of Voltaire: Etching (1785, New York, The New York Public Library)
o French Painter (18th century, after Maurice-Quentin de La Tour). François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire
· La Tour Maurice-Quentin. Jean le Rond d’Alembert (1753, Paris, Musée du Louvre)
· La Tour Maurice-Quentin. Jean le Rond d’Alembert: Sketch (1753, Saint-Quentin, The Antoine Lécuyer Museum)
· La Tour Maurice-Quentin. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1753, Geneva, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire)
· La Tour Maurice-Quentin. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (3rd quarter of the 18th c., Saint-Quentin, Musée Antoine-Lécuyer)
Laufenberg Gerda
· Laufenberg. Albertus Magnus (2001)
Laurens Jean-Paul (1838-1931)
· Laurens. St. John Chrysostom and Empress Eudoxia (1893, Toulouse, Musée des Augustins)
Lebiedzki Eduard (1862-1915)
· Lebiedzki (after design by Karl Rahl). King Otto Surrounded by Sciences: Detail of the Central Façade Mural (Athens, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
o Philosophy (detail)
o Theology
o Others Persons:
§ King Otto of Wittelsbach (1815-1867, ruled 1832-1862)
· Lebiedzki (after design by Karl Rahl). The Beginnings of Greek Philosophy: Detail of the Left-hand Façade Mural (Athens, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
o Pythagoras (c. 580 – c. 500 B.C.)
o Pythagoras and Thales (detail)
o Thales of Miletus (6th century B. C.)
· Lebiedzki (after design by Karl Rahl). The Makers of Athens: Detail of the Left-hand Façade Mural (Athens, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
o Solon (c. 630 – c. 560 B. C.)
o Others Persons and Subjects:
§ Miltiades, Themistocles and Aristides (c. 554 – c. 489 B.C., c. 524 – c. 460 B.C., c. 540 – c. 467 B.C., respectively)
§ Demos (the Athenian People)
· Lebiedzki (after design by Karl Rahl). The Golden Age of Athens: Detail of the Right-hand Façade Mural (Athens, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
o Socrates (470-399 B.C.)
o Socrates (detail)
o Socrates (detail enlarged)
o Others Persons:
§ Pericles (c. 495-429 B.C.)
§ Phidias (c. 490-430 B.C.)
§ Sophocles (c. 496-406 B.C.)
· Lebiedzki (after design by Karl Rahl). Philosophers of Athens: Detail of the Right-hand Façade Mural (Athens, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
o Anaxagoras (c. 500 – c. 428 B.C.)
o Anaxagoras (detail)
o Anaxagoras (detail enlarged)
o Antisthenes (444 – after 371 B.C.)
o Antisthenes (detail)
o Antisthenes (detail enlarged)
o Plato (428/27-348/47 B.C.)
o Plato (detail)
o Plato (detail enlarged)
o Others Persons:
§ Aspasia (b. c. 470 B.C.)
· Lebiedzki (after design by Karl Rahl). Aristotle and His Disciples: Detail of the Right-hand Façade Mural (Athens, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
o Aristotle (detail)
o Aristotle (detail enlarged)
o Demetrius of Phaleron (c. 350 – c. 280 B.C.)
o Straton of Lampsacus (d. c. 270 B.C.)
o Theophrastus (c. 372 – c. 287 B. C.)
o Theophrastus and Straton (detail)
o Theophrastus and Straton (detail enlarged)
o Others Persons:
§ Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C)
§ Archimedes (c. 290-280 – 211 B.C.)
Lecomte Félix (1737-1817)
· Lecomte Félix. Jean le Rond d’Alembert (as seen from the sitter’s left-hand side) (between 1791-1808, Paris, Musée du Louvre)
o Jean le Rond d’Alembert (as seen from the sitter’s right-hand side)
Lefebvre Jules Joseph (1836-1911)
· Lefebvre. Truth (1870, Paris, Musée d’Orsay)
Legros Alphonse (1837-1911)
· Legros Alphonse. Portrait of Thomas Henry Huxley
Legros Pierre (the Elder) (1629-1714)
· Legros Pierre (the Elder). Water (1681, Versaille, The Versailles Park and Gardens)
Le Hongre Etienne (1628-1690)
· Le Hongre. Air (1685, Versaille, The Versailles Park and Gardens)
Leighton Frederick (1830-1896)
· Leighton Frederick. Dante in Exile (c. 1864, private collection)
o Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
Lemonnier Anicet-Charles-Gabriel (1743-1824)
· Lemonnier. In the Salon of Madame Geoffrin in 1755 (1812, Rueil, Château du Malmaison)
Lemoyne François (1688-1737)
· Lemoyne François. Time Saving Truth from Falsehood and Envy (1737, London, Wallace Collection)
Lemoyne Jean-Baptiste II (1704-1778)
· Lemoyne Jean-Baptiste II. Bust of Montesquieu (1760, Bordeaux, Musée des Beaux-Arts)
Lespagnandelle Matthieu (17th century)
· Lespagnandelle. A Phlegmatic (btw. 1675-1679, Versailles, The Versailles Park and Gardens)
· Lespagnandelle. Diogenes (btw. 1685-1686, Versailles, The Versailles Park and Gardens)
Le Vachez Jean-Baptiste
· Le Vachez Jean-Baptiste (after drawing by Jean Huber). Unique at Any Age (1778)
Liang Kai – see: Liang K’ai
Liang K’ai (romanised in Pinyin as Liang Kai, c. 1140 - c. 1210)
· Liang K’ai. The Sixth Patriarch Cutting the Bamboo (13 century, Tokyo, National Museum)
· Liang K’ai. The Sixth Patriarch Tearing the Sutra (13 century)
Licinio Bernardino (c. 1489 – c. 1565)
· Licinio. Madonna with Child in Arms (1524, Venice, Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari)
o St. Bonaventure (Giovanni di Fidanza, c. 1217-1274)
Lippi Filippino (c. 1457-1504)
Frescoes of the Carafa Chapel in the S. Maria sopra Minerva in Rome (1489-1491)
§ View of the Carafa Chapel in the S. Maria sopra Minerva in Rome
· Lippi Filippino. Assumption and Annunciation
o Annunciation with St. Thomas Aquinas presenting Cardinal Carafa to the Virgin
o Annunciation with St. Thomas Aquinas presenting Cardinal Carafa to the Virgin (enlarged)
§ St. Thomas Aquinas (1224/25-1274)
· Lippi Filippino. Scene from the Life of St. Thomas Aquinas
o St. Thomas Aquinas (1224/25-1274)
o St. Thomas Aquinas (detail, enlarged)
· Lippi Filippino. Triumph of St. Thomas Aquinas over the Heretics
o Arius, Apollinarius, and Averroës
o Arius, Apollinarius, and Averroës (enlarged)
§ Averroës (Ibn Rushd, 1126-1198) (1st image)
o St. Thomas Aquinas Surrounded by Four Female Figures Representing Philosophy, Astronomy, Theology, and Grammar (enlarged)
§ Averroës (Ibn Rushd, 1126-1198) (2nd image)
§ St. Thomas Aquinas (1224/25-1274)
§ Theology
§ Other Figures:
· Grammar
Lippi Filippo (1406-1469)
· Lippi Filippo. Madonna della Cintola (Prato, Civic Museum)
o St. Augustine (Aurelius Augustinus, 354-430)
· Lippi Filippo. The Doctors of the Church: The side wings of a triptych (c. 1437, Turin, Academia Albertina)
o St. Augustine (Aurelius Augustinus, 354-430)
§ Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels: The centre panel of a triptych (c. 1437, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art)
· Lippi Filippo. Virgin and Child with St. Fredianus and St. Augustine: The main panel of the Barbadori Altarpiece (1437-1438, Paris, Musée du Louvre)
· Lippi Filippo. Vision of St. Augustine: The right predella panel of the Barbadori Altarpiece (c. 1438, Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi)
· Lippi Filippo. Vision of St. Augustine (1450s-1460s, St. Petersburg, The Hermitage)
Lips Johann Heinrich (1758-1817)
· Lips. Goethe (1791, Frankfurt am Main, The Goethe Museum)
Lockey Rowland (active 1593-1616)
· Lockey (after Hans Holbein the Younger). Sir Thomas More with His Family (1593, London, National Portrait Gallery)
Lomi Orazio – see: Gentileschi Orazio
Loo Louis-Michel, van – see: Van Loo Louis-Michel
Lotto Lorenzo (c. 1480-1556)
· Lotto. Madonna and Child with Saints (1516, Bergamo, Church of San Bartolomeo)
o St. Augustine (Aurelius Augustinus, 354-430)
· Lotto. Madonna and Child with Saints (1521, Bergamo, Church of Santo Spirito)
o St. Augustine (Aurelius Augustinus, 354-430)
o St. Augustine (detail)
· Lotto. Madonna of the Rosary (1539, Cingoli, Church of San Nicolo)
o St. Thomas Aquinas (1224/25-1274)
· Lotto. Sts. Thomas Aquinas and Flavian, Sts. Peter the Martyr and Vitus: The left and right panels of the Recanati Polyptych (1508, Recanati, Pinacoteca Comunale)
o St. Thomas Aquinas (1224/25-1274)
§ Madonna and Child with Sts. Dominic, Gregory and Urban: The central panel of the Recanati Polyptych
Lysippus of Sicyon (4th century B.C.)
· Greek (Greco-Roman?) Sculptor (1st or 2nd century A.D. after Lysippus of Sicyon). Aristotle (Paris, Musée du Louvre)
· Greek (Greco-Roman?) Sculptor (1st century A.D. after Lysippus of Sicyon). Socrates (Paris, Musée du Louvre)
o Socrates (side view)
