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Aristotle with a Bust of Homer (Dutch: Aristoteles bij de buste van Homerus), also known as Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer, is an oil-on-canvas painting by Rembrandt that depicts Aristotle wearing a gold chain and contemplating a sculpted bust of Homer. It was created as a commission for Don Antonio Ruffo's collection.
The novel is an eclectic historical journey across multiple periods of history, all connected by a single painting: Rembrandt van Rijn's Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer. The work jumps from the golden age of Athens , to 17th Century Holland , to the rise of the American Empire; hopscotching from Aristotle , to Rembrandt , to Socrates ...
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Aristotle with a Bust of Homer: 1653: Oil on canvas: 141.8 x 134.4: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: 228: The painting was larger at both top and bottom. The original proportions of the canvas were 4:3 A Woman Wading in a Pool (Callisto in the Wilderness) 1654: Oil on panel: 61.8 x 47: National Gallery, London: 229: Oil Study of an Old Man ...
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Rembrandt's Aristotle with a Bust of Homer, too, is a celebrated work, showing the knowing philosopher and the blind Homer from an earlier age: as the art critic Jonathan Jones writes, "this painting will remain one of the greatest and most mysterious in the world, ensnaring us in its musty, glowing, pitch-black, terrible knowledge of time."
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Homer Dictating his Verses is a 1663 oil-on-canvas painting by Rembrandt, signed and dated by the artist. It is now in the Mauritshuis , to which it was bequeathed in 1946 by Abraham Bredius , who had loaned it to the museum since 1894, when he first bought it in London.