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By 1649, Descartes had become one of Europe's most famous philosophers and scientists. [57] That year, Queen Christina of Sweden invited him to her court to organize a new scientific academy and tutor her in his ideas about love. [70] Descartes accepted, and moved to the Swedish Empire in the middle of winter. [71]
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Giuseppe Tartini recounted that his most famous work, his Violin Sonata in G minor, more commonly known as the Devil's Trill Sonata, came to him in a dream in 1713. According to Tartini's account given to the French astronomer Jérôme Lalande , he dreamed that he had made a pact with the devil , to whom he had handed a violin after a music ...
Her works often focus on important women from history, as shown in her most famous work, “The Dinner Party,” which represents 39 significant figures in the history of women artists (The ...
In the first part of his work, Descartes ponders the relationship between the thinking substance and the body. For Descartes, the only link between these two substances is the pineal gland (art. 31), the place where the soul is attached to the body. The passions that Descartes studies are in reality the actions of the body on the soul (art. 25).
National Gallery of Art: Washington, D.C Portrait of the French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes (1596–1650) 1649: 19 x 14 cm: DEP7: Statens Museum for Kunst: Copenhagen Portrait of a seated Woman Holding a Fan: 1648–1650: 109.5 x 82.5 cm: 1931.455 (pendant of 1931.451) Taft Museum of Art: Cincinnati, OH Portrait of a Seated ...
100 Great Paintings is a British television series broadcast in 1980 on BBC Two, devised by Edwin Mullins. [1] He chose 20 thematic groups, such as war, the Adoration , the language of colour, the hunt, and bathing, picking five paintings from each. [ 2 ]
Regulae ad directionem ingenii, or Rules for the Direction of the Mind is an unfinished treatise regarding the proper method for scientific and philosophical thinking by René Descartes. Descartes started writing the work in 1628, and it was eventually published in 1701 after Descartes' death. [1]