Pinacotheca Philosophica: Artists

Pinacotheca Philosophica

Philosophy and Philosophers in Art

Pacher Michael (c. 1435-1498)

· Pacher. Altarpiece of the Church Fathers (c. 1483, Munich, Alte Pinakothek)

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

· Pacher. Altarpiece of the Church Fathers: St. Augustine Liberating a Prisoner (c. 1483, Munich, Alte Pinakothek)

Pajou Augustin (1730-1809)

· Pajou. Blaise Pascal (1785, Paris, Musée du Louvre)

· Pajou. Buffon Seated (c. 1788, Paris, Musée du Louvre)

· Pajou. Bust of Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon (Dijon, Library)

· Pajou. Diogenes in Search for Man (1781, Paris, Musée du Louvre)

· Pajou. Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon (1773, Paris, Musée du Louvre)

· Pajou. Jacques Bénigne Bossuet (1779, Paris, Musée du Louvre)

· Pajou. Psyche Abandoned (1790, Paris, Musée du Louvre)

Following its handling by the Platonic philosopher Lucius Apuleius in his famous novel The Golden Ass (2ndcentury 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.

o Psyche Abandoned (detail)

· Pajou. René Descartes (1777, Paris, Musée du Louvre)

Nature Elements: Door Cornices from the Marquis d’Argenson’s palace (btw. 1761-1770, Paris, Musée du Louvre)

· Pajou. Air: Boreas Abducting Oreithyia

· Pajou. Earth: The Triumph of Cybele

· Pajou. Fire: Pluto Abducting Proserpine

· Pajou. Water: Neptune Protecting Amymone

Pannini Giovanni Paolo (1691-1765)

· Pannini. Architectural Ruins with the Arch of Janus, the Temple of Vesta and the Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius (1743, Paris, Musée du Louvre)

Pannini’s capriccio brings together a number of architectural monuments from different areas of ancient Rome.

Pasternak Leonid Osipovich (1862-1945)

· Pasternak. Portrait of Gershenzon (1917)

· Pasternak. Portrait of Tolstoy (1901, Paris, Musée d’Orsay

· Pasternak. Under a Lamp (Leo Tolstoy in the Family Circle) (1902, St. Petersburg, The Russian Museum)

Peale Rembrandt (1778-1860)

· Peale Rembrandt. Joseph Priestley (1801)

· Peale Rembrandt. Thomas Jefferson (c. 1802-1803, Washington, The White House Collection)

· Peale Rembrandt. Thomas Jefferson (1805, New York, New York Historical Society)

Perov Vasily Grigoryevich (1834-1882)

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

Perugino Pietro (Pietro Vannucci, 1450-1523)

· Perugino. Prudence and Justice with Six Antique Wisemen (1497, Perugia, Collegio del Cambio)

o Pittacus the Greek (Pittacus of Mytilene, c. 650 – c. 570 B.C.)

o Justice with Furius Camillus, Pittacus and Trajan (detail)

o Socrates the Philosopher (470-399 B.C.)

o Prudence with Fabius Maximus, Socrates and Numa Pompilius (detail)

o Other Persons and Subjects:

§ Fabius Maximus (Quintus Fabius Maximus Cunctator, d. 203 B.C.)

§ Furius Camillus (Marcus Furius Camillus, d. 365 B.C.)

§ Numa Pompilius (ruled 715-673/672 B.C.)

§ Trajan the Emperor (Marcus Ulpius Traianus, 53-117 A.D., Roman Emperor from 98 to 117)

§ Justice

§ Prudence

Peter Victor (1840-1918)

· Rodin Auguste and Peter Victor. Thought (btw. 1893-1895, Paris, Musée d’Orsay)

o Thought (detail)

Petrov-Vodkin Kuzma Sergeyevich (1878-1939)

· Petrov-Vodkin. Portrait of Andrey Bely (1932)

Peyron Jean-François-Pierre (1744-1814)

· Peyron. The Death of Socrates (1787, Copenhagen, Statens Museum fur Kunst)

· Peyron. The Death of Socrates (Omaha, Nebraska, Joslyn Art Museum)

* 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).

Picot François Eduoard (1786-1868)

· Picot. Cupid and Psyche (1817, private collection)

Piero della Francesca (1416-1492)

· Piero della Francesca. St. Augustine: A Panel of the Polyptych of Saint Augustine (1465, Lisbon, Museo de Arte Antiga)

· Piero della Francesca. St. Augustine (Arezzo, San Francesco)

Piero di Cosimo (1462-1521)

· Piero di Cosimo. Immaculate Conception with Saints (the 1510s, Fiesole, S. Francesco)

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

o St. Bonaventure (Giovanni di Fidanza, c. 1217-1274)

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

Pietro da Cemmo (16th century)

· Pietro da Cemmo. St. Augustine (Bergamo, Biblioteca Comunale)

Pigalle Jean-Baptiste (1714-1785)

· Pigalle. Diderot (1777, Paris, Musée du Louvre)

o Diderot (detail)

· Pigalle. Nude Portrait of Voltaire (1776, Paris, Musée du Louvre)

Pinturicchio (Bernardino di Betto Benedetto di Biagio) (1454-1513)

· Pinturicchio. Madonna Enthroned with Saints: Detail of St. Augustine (Perugia, Pinacoteca Vannucci)

· Pinturicchio. Madonna with Child and Saints: Detail of St. Augustine and St. Nicholas (Roma, Santa Maria dei Popoli)

· Pinturicchio. St. Augustine (Perugia, Pinacoteca Vannucci)

· Pinturicchio. St. Augustine (Roma, Santa Maria dei Popoli)

· Pinturicchio. St. Augustine and the Child (Perugia, The National Gallery of Umbria)

· Pinturicchio. St. Catherine’s Disputation [with pagan philosophers]: The left part of the fresco (1492-1494, Rome, Vatican, Palazzi Pontifici, Sala dei Santi – Room of Saints)

· Pinturicchio. St. Catherine’s Disputation [with pagan philosophers]: The right part of the fresco (1492-1494, Rome, Vatican, Palazzi Pontifici, Sala dei Santi – Room of Saints)

Piombo Sebastiano, del – see: Sebastiano del Piombo

Pisano Giovanni (c. 1250-1314)

· Pisano Giovanni. Plato: A Statue on the Cathedral Façade (c. 1280, Siena, Duomo)

o Plato (detail)

Pollaiolo Antonio, del (c. 1431/32-1498)

· Pollaiolo Antonio. Tomb of Sixtus IV (1484-1493, Rome, Vatican, Basilica di San Pietro)

o Monument of Sixtus IV: View from above

o Philosophy: A side relief of the Tomb of Sixtus IV

Pomeroy Frederick William (1857-1924)

· Pomeroy. Francis Bacon (1912, London, Gray's Inn)

o Francis Bacon (enlarged)

o Francis Bacon (a side view, enlarged)

Pourbus Frans the Younger (1569–1622)

· Somer Paul, van (formerly attributed to Frans Pourbus the Younger). Portrait of Francis Bacon (1617, Warsaw, Palace on the Water)

Poussin Nicolas (1594-1665)

· Poussin. Landscape with Diogenes (c. 1647, Paris, Musée du Louvre)

o Diogenes (died c. 320 B.C.)

Pradier Jean-Jacques (1790-1852)

· Pradier Jean-Jacques. Monument to Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1834, Geneve, Île Rousseau)

o Jean-Jacques Rousseau (detail, enlarged)

Préault Antoine-Augustin (1809-1879)

· Préault. Dante (1852, Paris, Musée d’Orsay)

Preller Friedrich (1804-1878)

· Preller Friedrich. Goethe on His Deathbed (1832, Weimar, The Weimar Classics Foundation)

Procaccini Ercole (the Elder) (1520–1595)

· Procaccini Ercole (the Elder). St. Augustine (Bologna, Pinacoteca Nazionale)

Proud’hon Pierre Paul (1758-1823)

· Proud’hon Pierre Paul. Justice and Divine Vengeance Pursuing Crime (1808, Paris, Musée du Louvre)

· Proud’hon Pierre Paul. Justice and Divine Vengeance Pursuing Crime: Study (c. 1805-1808, Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum)

· Proud’hon Pierre Paul. Psyche Carried Off by the Zephyrs (1808, Paris, Musée du Louvre)

Puget Pierre (1620-1694)

· Puget. Bust of Marcus Aurelius (before 1689, Genoa, Museo di Sant’Agostino)

· Puget. Philosopher (1662, Cleveland, Museum of Art)

Not identified, possibly Chrysippus, Epicurus or Socrates.

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