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The Three Philosophers is an oil painting on canvas attributed to the Italian High Renaissance artist Giorgione. It shows three philosophers – one young, one middle-aged, and one old. The work may have been commissioned by the Venetian noble Taddeo Contarini, a Venetian merchant with an interest in the occult and alchemy.
The cartoon for the painting is in the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana in Milan. [26] Missing from it is the architectural background, the figures of Heraclitus, Raphael, and Protogenes. The group of the philosophers in the left foreground strongly recall figures from Leonardo's Adoration of the Magi. [27]
The Vinegar Tasters (三酸圖; 'three sours'; 嘗醋翁; 'vinegar-tasting old men'; 嘗醋圖, 尝醋图) is a traditional [clarification needed] subject in Chinese painting, which later spread to other East Asian countries. The allegorical image represents three elderly men tasting vinegar. The identity of the three men varies.
Theories that the painting is about duality (city and country, male and female) have been dismissed since radiography has shown that in the earlier stages of the painting the man to the left was a seated female nude. [18] The Three Philosophers is equally enigmatic and its attribution to Giorgione is still disputed. The three figures stand near ...
Furthermore, the painting of The Three Philosophers and several other Italian paintings are painted in mirror image, which may indicate that he was working from his miniature copy rather than the original, which would have been a necessity after the Archduke left Brussels with his collection to return to Vienna in 1656.
Giorgione - The Three Philosophers; Leonardo da Vinci – The Battle of Anghiari (lost painting) Lorenzo Lotto. Allegory of Virtue and Vice; Portrait of Bishop Bernardo de' Rossi; Andrea Previtali – Scenes from Tebaldeo's Eclogues; Raphael. Christ Blessing; Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints; Madonna del Granduca; St. Michael; Small ...
Presumably, the same man is shown, represented in three moments of his life. [3] In the scene, there are three people, of different ages, on a dark background. The youth at center reads a folio on which are drawn two rules of a musical staff. The man to his left points to the music sheet, and an old man looks at the viewer of the painting. [4]
Giorgione – The Three Philosophers; Leonardo da Vinci – Salvator Mundi (approximate date) Filippino Lippi, finished by Pietro Perugino – Annunziata Polyptych; Michelangelo – Doni Tondo (approximate date of completion) Pietro Perugino – Baptism of Jesus (Oratory of Nunziatella, Foligno) Raphael. Ansidei Madonna; La belle jardinière ...