Rembrandt van Rijn, 1653 - Aristotle with a Bust of Homer - fine art print

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Among The Met’s most celebrated works of art, this painting conveys Rembrandt’s meditation on the meaning of fame. The richly clad Greek philosopher Aristotle (384–322 B.C.) rests his hand pensively on a bust of Homer, the epic poet who had attained literary immortality with his Iliad and Odyssey centuries before. Aristotle wears a gold medallion with a portrait of his powerful pupil, Alexander the Great; perhaps the philosopher is weighing his own worldly success against Homer’s timeless achievement. Although the work has come to be considered quintessentially Dutch, it was painted for a Sicilian patron at a moment when Rembrandt’s signature style, with its dark palette and almost sculptural buildup of paint, was beginning to fall out of fashion in Amsterdam.

In 1653 the male painter Rembrandt van Rijn created this painting "Aristotle with a Bust of Homer". The 360 year-old version of the artpiece had the following size: 56 1/2 x 53 3/4 in (143,5 x 136,5 cm). Oil on canvas was used by the artist as the medium of the painting. Nowadays, the work of art forms part of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's art collection, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. With courtesy of - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, special contributions and funds given or bequeathed by friends of the Museum, 1961 (public domain license). Creditline of the artwork: Purchase, special contributions and funds given or bequeathed by friends of the Museum, 1961. Moreover, alignment of the digital reproduction is square with a side ratio of 1 : 1, meaning that the length is equal to the width. Rembrandt van Rijn was a male painter, whose style can be attributed primarily to Baroque. The European artist lived for a total of 63 years and was born in 1606 in Leiden and passed away in the year 1669.

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