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Bingham, Fur Traders Descending the Missouri

Bonheur, Plowing in the Nivernais

Caravaggio Art Exhibition, Rome, 2010

Caravaggio, Conversion of St. Paul

Caravaggio, Young, Sick Bacchus and Basket of Fruit

Caravaggio, Cardsharps and Fortune Teller

Caravaggio, Taking of Christ (Kiss of Judas)

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Monet, Waterlilies

Picasso, Nude, Green Leaves and Bust

Picasso, Portrait of Gertrude Stein

Picasso, Las Meninas Series

Poussin, Assumption of the Virgin

Rembrandt, Aristotle with a Bust of Homer

Rubens, Venus and Adonis

Sargent, Madame X

Steen, The Christening Feast

Titian, Bacchus and Ariadne

Titian, Nymph and Shepherd, Allegory of Prudence, Jacopa Strada, St. Jerome, Slaying of Marysas

Titian, Rape of Europa

Uccello, The Battle of San Romano

van der Weyden, St. Luke Drawing the Virgin

van Eyck, The Arnolfini Portrait

van Eyck, Adoration of the Lamb

van Eyck, Ghent Altarpiece

van Gogh, The Potato Eaters

van Gogh, Memory of Garden at Etten; Tatched Cottages; White House

van Gogh, Portrait of Madam Trabuc; Morning: Going Out

Vermeer, The Kitchen Maid;

Vermeer, The Allegory of Painting

Warhol, Campbell's Soup Cans

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Famous Paintings: “Aristotle with a Bust of Homer”

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One way to think of the evolution of culture in general, and the history of Western civilization in particular, is as a great conversation among the living and the dead. It is hard to imagine a more celebrated or more succinct illustration of this notion than Rembrandt’s Aristotle with a Bust of Homer.

Artistotle with a Bust of Homer

 


Aristotle with a Bust of Homer.  Oil on canvas, 1653.  56 1/2 " x 55 3/4".  Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

The founder of empirical philosophy, Aristotle is shown here as a living being, richly dressed, his gold chain unambiguously alluding to his world-dominating pupil and patron, Alexander the Great. The aging philosopher rests his hand on a marble bust of the father of Western literature, the blind poet, Homer, who was an archivist of human hopes and immortal deeds, and a personification of the creative spirit. Theirs is a silent, transgenerational dialogue—between life and art, between world and spirit—and thanks to Rembrandt, we, too, in contemplating them all, are drawn inexorably into the conversation.

With special thanks for this art analysis to David Nolta, Ph.D., Professor, Massachusetts College of Art and Design/Art Historian Consultant to Masterpiece Cards.

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