Portrait of the Philosopher René Descartes

Public Domain

Artist / maker

Anonieme meester (engravers (printmakers))

Period

18th century

Collection

Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
René Descartes (La Haye en Touraine 1596 - Stockholm 1650) was a French-born philosopher and mathematician who lived much of his life in the Republic of the Seven United Provinces. His approach to the problem of knowledge and the nature of the human mind played an important role in the development of philosophy.

More about this work

Features
Artist / maker Anonieme meester
Type engravings
Category prints (visual works) AAT
Material paper
Dimensions 207 x 159 mm
Location Work currently not on display
Object number 2013-DZ
Description
Subjects figures (representations) , portraits
Tags male sex; man Iconclass, adult man Iconclass, scholar, philosopher Iconclass, mathematics Iconclass, historical persons Iconclass, historical person (RENÉ DESCARTES) Iconclass
Linked open data
Data PURL https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2013-DZ
IIIF manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/6515/manifest.json
LIDO XML https://datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_lido&identifier=oai:datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be:mskgent.be:2013-DZ
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