Hendrick ter Brugghen, 1628 - Democritus - fine art print

About the more than 390 year-old artwork

In 1628 Hendrick ter Brugghen created the artpiece "Democritus". Moveover, this work of art is in the the digital art collection of Rijksmuseum. The public domain artpiece is provided with courtesy of Rijksmuseum.: . In addition to that, the alignment of the digital reproduction is in portrait format with a side ratio of 1 : 1.2, which means that the length is 20% shorter than the width. The painter Hendrick ter Brugghen was an artist, whose artistic style was primarily Baroque. The Baroque artist was born in 1588 in Hague, The, South Holland, Netherlands and died at the age of 41 in the year 1629.

Description from the museum's website (© Copyright - by Rijksmuseum - Rijksmuseum)

The Greek philosophers Democritus and Heraclitus were considered to be polar opposites. In contrast to the old, melancholy Heraclitus (the nearby pendant), Democritus appears as a young, laughing hedonist. He points to the distance, as though that is where the folly of mankind is found. Together, the pair of paintings conveys a moralizing message: whether you laugh or cry, the world remains incurably foolish.

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Background information on the artist

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