Pinacotheca Philosophica

Philosophy and Philosophers in Art

 

Calvin John (Jean Calvin, Jean Cauvin 1509-1564)

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

Campanella Tommaso (Giovanni Domenico Campanella, 1568-1639)

·       Unidentified Artist (17th century). Tommaso Campanella (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1664)

Camus Albert (1913-1960)

·       Vasco. Albert Camus (© Vasco)

Carlyle Thomas (1795-1881)

·       Brown Ford Madox. Work (1852-1865, Manchester, Manchester City Art Galleries)

o   Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

·       Greaves. Portrait of Thomas Carlyle Wearing a Hat (private collection)

·       Watts George Frederick. Portrait of Thomas Carlyle (private collection)

·       Whistler. Arrangement in Gray and Black No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle (1872-1873, Glasgow, Art Gallery and Museum)

Carneades (214-129 B. C.)

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

Chalcondyles Demetrius – see: Demetrius Chalcondyles

Chateaubriand François-Auguste-René, de (1768-1848)

·       David Jean-Pierre. Bust of Chateaubriand (1829, Angers, Musée des Beaux Arts)

·       David Jean-Pierre. Chateaubriand (1830, private collection)

·       Girodet-Triosson. François-René de Chateaubriand (1809, private collection)

Chilon of Sparta (6th century B. C.)

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

Chrysippus (c. 280 – c. 206 B. C.)

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

Not identified, possibly Chrysippus, Epicurus or Socrates.

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

·       Unknown Sculptor. Chrisippus (London, British Museum – I)

·       Unknown Sculptor. Chrisippus (London, British Museum – II)

·       Unknown Sculptor. Chrisippus (Rome, The Capitoline Museum)

o   Chrisippus (viewed from a different angle)

·       Unknown Sculptor. Chrisippus (Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi)

Chrysostom John (c. 347-407)

·       Dürer. The Penance of St. John Chrysostom (c. 1496, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

o   St. John Chrysostom (c. 347-407)

·       Laurens. St. John Chrysostom and Empress Eudoxia (1893, Toulouse, Musée des Augustins)

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

o   St. John Chrysostom (c. 347-407)

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

·       Italian Painter (15th century). Madonna and Child with Saints and Donors (1496, Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera)

o   St. John Chrysostom (c. 347-407)

·       Russian Miniaturist (13th century). St. John Chrisostom

Chuan Shan – see: Wang Fu-zhi

Cicero Marcus Tullius (106-43 B. C.)

·       Delacroix. Eloquence: Cicero (1841-1846, Paris, Palais du Luxembourg: The Senate Library)

·       Delacroix. The Limbo: Cupola Painting (1841-1846, Paris, Palais du Luxembourg: The Senate Library)

o   The Limbo: Cupola Painting (viewed from a different perspective)

o   Famous Romans (detail)

o   Famous Romans (detail enlarged)

§  Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 B.C.)

·       Faithorne William (the Elder). The Academy of Eloquence: Demosthenes, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Francis Bacon, Philip Sidney (1654, London, National Portrait Gallery)

o   Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)

·       Foppa. The Young Cicero Reading (c. 1464, London, Wallace Collection)

·       Franciabigio. The Triumph of Cicero (c. 1520, Poggio a Caiano, Villa Medici)

o   Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B. C.)

·       Ghirlandajo Domenico. Decoration of the Sala del Gigli (1482-1484, Florence, Palazzo Vecchio, Sala del Gigli)

o   Decoration of the Sala del Gigli: Fresco above the right-hand door

o   Decoration of the Sala del Gigli: Fresco above the right-hand door (enlarged)

§  Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B. C.)

·       Houdon. Cicero (1803, Paris, Musée du Louvre)

o   Cicero (detail)

·       Taddeo di Bartolo. Allegories and Figures from Roman History (1413-1414, Siena, Palazzo Pubblico)

o   Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B. C.)

·       Valenciennes. Cicero Discovering the Tomb of Archimedes (1787, Toulouse, Musée des Augustins)

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

·       Roman Sculptor (1st century A. D.). Portrait of Cicero (1st century A. D., Rome, The Capitoline Museum)

Combach Johann (1585-1651)

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

Comte Isidore-Auguste-Marie-François-Xavier (1798-1857)

·       Injalbert. Monument to Auguste Comte (1902, Paris, Place de la Sorbonne)

o   Monument to Auguste Comte (detail)

Condorcet Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de (1743-1794)

·       Houdon. Condorcet (c. 1785, Paris, Musée du Louvre)

o   Condorcet (detail)

·       French Painter (18th century). Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, marquis de Condorcet (between 1890-1794, Paris, Musée Carnavalet)

Confucius (K’ung-tzu, K’ung-fu-tzu, 551-479 B.C.)

·       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: 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).

·       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)

·       Roerich Nicholas. Confucius the Just One (1925, Miami, Florida, Bolling Collection)

Copernicus Nicolaus (1473-1543)

·       Matejko. Astronomer Copernicus, or Conversation with God (1872, Kraków, The Jagiellonian University Museum)

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

Covarrubias y Leiva Antonio, de (1524-1602)

Crates of Athens (died c. 268/265 B.C.)

·       Ribera. Philosopher Crates of Athens (Tokyo, National Museum of Western Art)

Crates of Thebes (4th century B.C.)

·       Giordano. The Philosopher Crates (c. 1650, Rome, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica)

·       French Miniaturist (15th century). Diogenes in His Barrel and Crates of Thebes Who Gives up Wealth for Virtue: Illustration from Le Livre de bonnes moeurs de Jacques Legrand [The Book of Moralities of Jacques Legrand] (c. 1490)

·       Roman Wall Painter (c. 1st century A. D.). Crates and Hipparchia: A Roman wall painting in the Villa Farnesina (Rome, Museo delle Terme)

o   Crates of Thebes (detail)

o   Hipparchia of Maroneia (wife to Crates of Thebes) (detail)

Cremonini Cesare (1550-1631)

·       Unidentified Artist (17th century). Cesare Cremonini (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1652)

Cusanus Nicolaus – see: Nicholas of Cusa