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Pinacotheca Philosophica

Philosophy and Philosophers in Art

 

Bachelard Gaston (1884-1962)

·        Vasco. Gaston BachelardVasco)

Bacon Francis (1561-1626)

·       Boyle. Sir Francis Bacon (1894-96, Washington, Library of Congress)

·       Brucciani Domenico (after William Wright). Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Alban (c. 1875, London, National Portrait Gallery)

·       Carlos Ernest Stafford. Francis Bacon, 1st Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Alban (c. 1904, Cambridge, Trinity College)

·       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)

·       Harding George Perfect (after Paul van Somer). Sir Francis Bacon (1812, London, Westminster Palace)

·       Hilliard. Portrait Miniature of Francis Bacon in his 18th year (1578, London, National Portrait Gallery)

·       Larkin William. Portrait of Sir Francis Bacon (c. 1610, private collection)

·       Larkin William. Portrait of Sir Francis Bacon (c. 1617, Cambridge, Trinity College)

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

o   Francis Bacon (enlarged)

o   Francis Bacon (a side view, enlarged)

·       Roubillac. Bust of Sir Francis Bacon (1751, Cambridge, Trinity College Library)

o   Bust of Sir Francis Bacon (detail)

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

·       Somer Paul, van. Portrait of Francis Bacon as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England (1618, St. Albans, Gorhambury House)

·       Vanderbank John (the Younger) (after Paul van Somer). Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Alban (c. 1731, London, National Portrait Gallery)

·       Vanderbank John (the Younger) (after the portrait by unknown painter dated c. 1618). Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Alban (c. 1731, London, National Portrait Gallery)

·       Weekes (after William Wright) Francis Bacon (1845, Cambridge, Trinity College)

·       Woolner. Frances Bacon (1857, Oxford, Natural History Museum)

·       Wright William. Monument to Francis Bacon (1626, St. Albans, St. Michael’s Church)

o   Monument to Francis Bacon (detail)

o   Cooke (after George Shepheard). Monument to Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Alban, in St. Michael's Church, St. Albans (1815)

·       English Painter (16th century). Portrait of Francis Bacon as a Child (c. 1561-1562, St. Albans, Gorhambury House)

·       English Painter (18th century) (after Paul van Somer). Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Alban (after 1731, London, National Portrait Gallery).

·       English Painter (unidentified). Francis Bacon in the Parliament on the Day of His Political Fall (London, Westminster Palace)

·       Persons related to Francis Bacon:

o   Board. William Harvey Demonstrating His Theory of Circulation of Blood before Charles I (William Harvey was personal physician to Francis Bacon) (London, Wellcome Library)

o   English Sculptor (16th century). Anthony Bacon aged 8 years (elder brother to Francis Bacon): A painted terracotta bust (c. 1566, St. Albans, Gorhambury House)

o   English Sculptor (16th century). Lady Anne Bacon (mother to Francis Bacon): A painted terracotta bust (c. 1566, St. Albans, Gorhambury House)

o   English Sculptor (16th century). Sir Nicholas Bacon (father to Francis Bacon): A painted terracotta bust (c. 1566, St. Albans, Gorhambury House)

Bacon Roger (Doctor Mirabilis, c. 1220-1292)

·       Board. Roger Bacon in His Observatory at Merton College (London, Wellcome Library)

·        Hope-Pinker. Statue of Roger Bacon (19th century, Oxford, Natural History Museum)

o   Statue of Roger Bacon (detail)

Barthes Roland (Gérard) (1915-1980)

·        Vasco. Roland BarthesVasco)

Basil the Great, Saint (329-379)

·        Herrera (the Elder). St. Basil Dictating His Rule (c. 1639, Paris, Musée du Louvre)

·        Rubens. St. Basil (Gotha, Schloß Friedenstein)

·        Schmalz. St. Basil (Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, the artist’s property)

o   St. Basil (detail)

·        Theophanes the Greek. St. Basil the Great (c. 1405, Moscow, The Kremlin, the Annunciation Cathedral)

·        Vasnetsov V. Orthodox Bishops (1885-1896, Kiev, Cathedral of St. Vladimir)

o   St. Basil the Great (329-379)

·        Zurbarán. St. Basil (Bucharest, Art Museum)

·        German Artist (17th century). St. Basil the Great: Illustration from Πατρολογια, id est Descriptio S. Patrum Græcorum & Latinorum (1624, Augsburg)

Becchi Gentile ()

·        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)

§  Gentile de’ Becchi (usually identified as Demetrius Chalcondyles)

Bede the Venerable (672/673-735)

·        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   Bede the Venerable (672/673-735)

·        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   Bede the Venerable (672/673-735)

Bely Andrey (Boris Nikolayevich Bugayev, 1880-1934)

·        Bakst. Portrait of the Poet and Writer Andrey Bely (1905, St. Petersburg, The Russian Museum)

·        Bakst. Portrait of the Writer Andrey Bely (Paris)

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

Bentham Jeremy (1748-1832)

·        David Jean-Pierre. Jeremy Bentham (1828, London, Senate House)

Berkeley George (1685-1753)

·        Flewelling Ralph Carlin. Berkeley: Westward the course of empire takes its way, time’s noblest offspring is the last: 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).

·        Smibert. Family Portrait of Dean George Berkeley (1729, New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery)

·        Smibert. Portrait of Dean George Berkeley (presumably 1727, Washington, National Portrait Gallery)

Bessarion John (Basil Bessarion, 1403-1472)

·        Bellini Gentile. Cardinal Bessarion with the Bessarion Reliquary (c. 1472-1473, London, The National Gallery)

o   John Bessarion (1403-1472)

·        Joos van Ghent. Cardinal Bessarion (c. 1474, Paris, Musée du Louvre)

·        Unidentified Artist (17th century). Bessarion (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1669)

·        Unknown Miniaturist. Illustration to Bessarion, Orationes et epistolae ad Christianos principes contra Turcos [Orations and Letters to Christian Princes against the Turks]

o   John Bessarion (1403-1472)

Bias of Priene (c. 590 – c. 530 B.C.)

·        German Artist (19th century). Bias of Priene: Illustration from Galerie der alten Griechen und Römer (1801, Augsburg)

Boethius Anicius Manlius Severinus (480-524)

·        Amadeus. Boethius Instructing His Students and Boethius in Prison: Two Miniatures from Book I of Boethius’ On the Consolation of Philosophy (1385, Glasgow, Glasgow University LIbrary)

* The text reads:

Carmina qui quondam studio florente peregi,
flebilis heu maestos cogor inire modos.
ecce mihi lacerae dictant scribenda Camenae
et ueris elegi fletibus ora rigant.

   English translation (by W.V. Cooper):

To pleasant songs my work was erstwhile given, and bright were all my labours then;
but now in tears to sad refrains am I compelled to turn.
Thus my maimed Muses guide my pen,
and gloomy songs make no feigned tears bedew my face.

o   Boethius Instructing His Students: An Initial Vignette

o   Boethius in Prison: A Miniature

·        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   Boethius (480-524)

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

o   Boethius (480-524, usually identified as Anaximander)

o   Boethius (detail, the figure is usually identified as that of Anaximander)

o   Boethius (detail, enlarged, the figure is usually identified as that of Anaximander)

·        Schnetz. Boethius Bidding Farewell to His Family ()

·        Dutch Miniaturist (15th century). Jean de Meng Offering His Translation of Boethius’ De consolatione philosophiae to Margaret of England: Illumination on Parchment (after 1476, Jena, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Universitätsbibliothek)

Bollstädt Albert vonsee: Albert the Great

Bonaventure, Saint (Giovanni di Fidanza, Doctor Seraphicus, 1221-1274)

·        Angelico. Crucifixion and Saints (1441-1442, Florence, Convento di San Marco)

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

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

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

·        Bonone. Christ Adored by Angels, St. Sebastian and St. Bonaventure (c. 1610-1617, Paris, Musée du Louvre)

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

·        Foppa. Altarpiece (1476, Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera)

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

·        Gozzoli. Triumph of St. Thomas Aquinas (1471, Paris, Musée du Louvre)

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

·        Herrera (the Elder). St. Bonaventure Joins the Franciscan Order (1628, Madrid, Museo del Prado)

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

·        Herrera (the Elder). St. Bonaventure Receiving Communion from the Hands of an Angel (1628, Paris, Musée du Louvre)

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

·        Herrera (the Elder). The Healing of the Child St. Bonaventure by St. Francis (1628, Paris, Musée du Louvre)

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

·        Licinio. Madonna with Child in Arms (1524, Venice, Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari)

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

·        Moretto. St. Bonaventure and St.  Anthony of Padua (between 1520-1550, Paris, Musée du Louvre)

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

·        Murillo. St. Leander and St. Bonaventure (1665-1666, Sevilla, Museum of Fine Arts)

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

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

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

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

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

o   St. Bonaventure (detail)

o   St. Bonaventure (detail, enlarged)

·        Solimena. St. Bonaventura Receiving the Banner of St. Sepulchre from the Madonna (1710, Aversa, Cathedral)

·        Staes. Thomas Aquinas and BonaventuraRobert Staes, O.P.)

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

·        Zurbarán. St. Bonaventure at Pray (Dresden, The Dresden Gallery)

·        Zurbarán. St. Bonaventure at the Council of Lyons (1629, Paris, Musée du Louvre)

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

·        Zurbarán. The Lying-in-State of St. Bonaventure (1629, Paris, Musée du Louvre)

Bossuet Jacques-Bénigne (1627-1704)

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

Bracciolini Poggiosee: Poggio Bracciolini Gian Francesco

Bruni Leonardo (Leonardo Aretino, c. 1370-1444)

·        Unidentified Artist (17th century). Leonardo Bruni (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1669)

Budé Guillaume (Guglielmus Budaeus) (1467-1540)

·        Clouet. Portrait of Guillaume Budé (Budaeus) (c. 1535-1536, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

·        Unidentified Artist (17th century). Guillaume Budé (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1669)

Budaeus Guglielmussee: Budé Guillaume

Buddha Shakyamuni (Siddhartha Gautama, 624-544 or 566-486 or 480-400 B. C.)

Buddha Shakyamuni’s images are listed on a separate page.

Buffon Georges-Louis Leclerc, de (1707-1788)

·        Houdon. Buffon (c. 1793, Paris, Musée du Louvre)

o   Buffon (a side view)

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

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

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

Bugayev Boris Nikolayevichsee: Bely Andrey

Bulgakov Sergey Nikolayevich (1871-1844)

·        Nesterov. Philosophers: Portrait of Pavel Florensky and Sergey Bulgakov (1917, Moscow, The Tretyakov Gallery)

o   Sergey Nikolayevich Bulgakov

 

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