Pinacotheca Philosophica

Philosophy and Philosophers in Art

 

Dai Zhen (Dong Yuan, 1723-1777)

·       Unknown Artist (20th century). Dai Zhen

Damascene John – see: John of Damascus

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

Dante’s images are listed on a separate page.

Demetrius Chalcondyles (1424-1511)

·       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)

§  Demetrius Chalcondyles (1424-1511, sometimes identified as Gentile de’ Becchi)

Demetrius of Phaleron (Demetrius Phalereus, c. 350 B.C. – c. 280 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   Demetrius of Phaleron (c. 350 – c. 280 B.C.)

Democritus (c. 460 – c. 370 B.C.)

·       Bramante. Heracleitus and Democritus (1477, Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera)

o   Democritus: [A ‘laughing’ philosopher] (c. 460 – c. 370 B.C.)

·       Carracci Agostino. Democritus (1598, Naples, Museo e Gallerie Nazionali di Capodimonte)

·       Corot. Democritus and the Abderites (1841, Nantes, Musée des Beaux-Arts)

o   Democritus (c. 460 – c. 370 B.C.)

·       Coypel. Democritus (1692, Paris, Musée du Louvre)

·       Flewelling Ralph Carlin. Democritus: The fatherland of the wise and the good is the whole world: 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).

·       Giordano. Democritus (1690, Hamburg, Kunsthalle)

·       Martínez del Mazo. Democritus: a copy of the painting by Peter Paul Rubens (Madrid, Museo del Prado)

·       Rembrandt. Self-Portrait as Democritus the Laughing Philosopher (c. 1628, Great Britain, Private collection)

·       Ribera. Democritus (London, private collection)

·       Rosa. Democritus and Protagoras (c. 1663-1664, St. Petersburg, The Hermitage)

o   Democritus (c. 460 – c. 370 B.C.)

·       Rosa. Democritus in Meditation (c. 1650, Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst)

·       Rubens. Democritus (1603, Madrid, Museo del Prado)

o   Martínez del Mazo. Democritus: a copy of the painting by Peter Paul Rubens (Madrid, Museo del Prado)

·       Rubens. Democritus and Heracleitus (Valladolid, The National Museum of Religious Sculpture)

o   Democritus: [A ‘laughing’ philosopher] (c. 460 – c. 370 B.C.)

·       Terbrugghen. Democritus (1628, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum)

o   Compare to Terbrugghen. Heracleitus (1628, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum).

·       Velázquez. Democritus (1628/29, Rouen, Musée des Beaux-Arts)

·       Vincent François André. Democritus among the Abderites (c. 1790, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art)

o   Democritus (c. 460 – c. 370 B.C.)

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

Descartes René (1596-1650)

·       Bezpalov Innokenty Fyodorovich. Bust Monument of René Descartes (1934, Leningrad Region, Koltushi Village)

o   Bust of René Descartes (detail enlarged)

·       Brun Joseph-Sylvestre. Bust of René Descartes (1838, Versailles, The Palace Gallery)

o   Bust of René Descartes (half-side view: left)

o   Bust of René Descartes (half-side view: left, detail, enlarged)

·       Dumesnil. Dispute of Queen Christina of Sweden and René Descartes (unavailable)

o   Forsberg (after Pierre-Louis Dumesnil). Dispute of Queen Christina of Sweden and René Descartes (1884, Versailles, National Museum)

§  Dispute of Queen Christina of Sweden and René Descartes (detail)

·       Flewelling Ralph Carlin. Descartes: Cogito ergo sum (I think therefore I am): 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).

·       Hals. René Descartes (c. 1649, Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst)

o   Flemish or French Painter (17th or 18th century, after the lost 1649 original by Frans Hals). René Descartes (before 1785, Paris, Musée du Louvre)

·        Nieuwerkerke Alfred-Emilien O’Hara. Monument to René Descartes (1845, The Hague, Newtonplein)

o   Statue of René Descartes

·        Nieuwerkerke Alfred-Emilien O’Hara. Monument to René Descartes: a copy of the bronze statue in The Hague (1849, Descartes, Rue du Commerce)

o   Statue of René Descartes

o   Statue of René Descartes (detail)

o   Statue of René Descartes (detail, enlarged)

·        Nieuwerkerke Alfred-Emilien O’Hara. Monument to René Descartes: a copy of the bronze statue in The Hague (1852, Tours, Place Anatole France)

o   Statue of René Descartes

o   Statue of René Descartes (an alternative view)

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

·       Vasco. René Descartes (© Vasco)

·       Unidentified Artist (17th century). René Descartes (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1664)

Dewey John (1859-1952)

·       Hare. John Dewey (2003)

Diderot Denis (1713-1784)

·       Collot. Denis Diderot (1772, St. Petersburg, Hermitage)

·       Fragonard Jean-Honoré. Portrait of a Man (Denis Diderot) (c. 1769, Paris, Musée du Louvre)

·       Houdon. Bust of Denis Diderot (1771, Paris, Musée du Louvre)

o   Bust of Denis Diderot (detail)

·       Houdon. Bust of Denis Diderot (1771, New Haven, Seymour Collection)

·       Houdon. Bust of Denis Diderot (c. 1771, Troyes, Musée des Beaux-Arts)

·       Houdon. Bust of Denis Diderot (1773, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art)

·       Houdon. Bust of Denis Diderot (1773, private collection)

·       Houdon. Bust of Denis Diderot (1775, Paris, Musée du Louvre)

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

o   Diderot (detail)

·       Van Loo Louis-Michel. Denis Diderot (1767, Paris, Musée du Louvre)

Diogenes of Babylon – see: Diogenes of Seleucia

Diogenes of Seleucia (Diogenes of Babylon, c. 240-150 B. C.)

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

Diogenes of Sinope (d. c. 320 B.C.)

·       Castiglione. The Fable of Diogenes (Madrid Museo del Prado)

o   Diogenes (died c. 320 B.C.)

·       Crayer. Alexander and Diogenes (Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum)

o   Diogenes (died c. 320 B.C.)

·       Delhomme. Democritus Meditating on the Seat of the Soul (1868, Lyon, Museum of Fine Arts)

·       Everdingen Caesar. Diogenes Seeks a True Man (1652, The Hague, Mauritshuis)

·       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)

·       Gandolfi Gaetano. Diogenes and Alexander (1792, Zürich, Private сollection)

·       Gérôme. Diogenes (1860, Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery)

·       Lespagnandelle. Diogenes (btw. 1685-1686, Versailles, The Versailles Park and Gardens)

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

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

o   Diogenes (died c. 320 B.C.)

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

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

o   Diogenes (died c. 320 B.C.)

o   Diogenes (detail, enlarged)

·       Restout. Diogenes Asking the Statues for Alms (1765, Toulouse, Musée des Augustins)

·       Ribera. Diogenes with His Lantern (1637, Dresden, The Dresden Gallery)

·       Rosa. Diogenes Casting Away His Cup (1650s, private collection)

·       Waterhouse. Diogenes (1882, Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales)

·       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)

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

·       Italian Artist (20th century?). Diogenes and Alexander the Great: A dish from Urbino

o   Diogenes (died c. 320 B.C.)

Dionysius the Areopagite (1st century A.D.)

Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (5-6th century)

·       Ghirlandajo Domenico and David and Bartolomeo di Giovanni. Madonna and Child Enthroned between Angels and Saints (c. 1486, Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi)

o   St. Dionysius the Areopagite (1st century A. D.) / Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (5-6th century)

·       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   Dionysius the Areopagite (1st century A. D.) / Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (5-6th century)

·       Raphael. St. Paul Preaching in Athens (1515, London, Victoria and Albert Museum)

o   St. Dionysius the Areopagite (1st century A. D.) / Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (5-6th century)

·       Raphael. Study for St. Paul Preaching in Athens (1514-1515, Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi)

o   St. Dionysius the Areopagite (1st century A. D.) / Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (5-6th century)

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

Dionysius the Carthusian (Denys van Leeuwen, Denys van Rijkel, Doctor Ecstaticus, 1402-1471)

·       Christus Petrus. Portrait of a Carthusian (presumed to be Dionysius the Carthusian) (1446, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Dong Yuan – see: Dai Zhen

Donne John (1572-1631)

·       Stone Nicholas (the Elder). Monument to the Poet John Donne: General view (1631, London, St. Paul’s Cathedral)

o   Monument to the Poet John Donne: Effigy

o   Monument to the Poet John Donne: Effigy (detail)

Dostoyevsky Fyodor Mikhaylovich (1821-1881)

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

Duns Scotus John (Doctor Subtilis, c. 1266-1308)

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

o   John Duns Scotus (c. 1266-1308)

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

o   John Duns Scotus (c. 1266-1308)