Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of a Scholar 1631 Oil on canvas, 104.5 x 92 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg In the first decade of his life in Amsterdam, to which the young Rembrandt moved from Leiden in 1631, he gained initial fame…
(1454–1494) Poliziano in Art: Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Adorazione dei Magi c.1475 Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze See also: • Humanists | Playwrights | Poets | Scholars | Writers
(1932–2013) Peter Seamus O’Toole Filmography as Actor: How to Steal a Million 1966 Director: William Wyler Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Peter O’Toole The Lion in Winter 1968 Director: Anthony Harvey Starring: Peter O’Toole, Katharine Hepburn Man of…
(1304–1374) Works: • Fifteen sonnets (English) • Letters to Classical Authors (English) • Three Dialogues Between Petrarch and S. Augustine (English) • The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems (English) Petrarca in Art: Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) Ritratto di giovane donna con…
• Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375) • Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106-43 BC) • Nietzsche, Friedrich (1844-1900) • O’Toole, Peter (1932-2013) • Pascoli, Giovanni (1855-1912) • Petrarca, Francesco (1304-1374) • Poliziano, Agnolo (1454-1494) • Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) • Spinoza, Baruch (1632-1677) • Tacitus (56-c.120 AD)
(1844–1900) Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Works: • Also sprach Zarathustra (German) ◊ Thus Spoke Zarathustra (English) ◊ Ainsi Parlait Zarathoustra (French) ◊ The Antichrist (English) ◊ The Case of Wagner (English) • Die Geburt der Tragödie (German) • Ecce Homo (German) • Götzen-Dämmerung (German) ◊ Homer…
(1788–1824) George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS Works: • A Day with Lord Byron (English, as Contributor) • Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (English) • Don Juan (English) • Fugitive Pieces (English) • Korinton piiritys (Finnish) • Letters and Journals.…