Image Credits and References:

Image Credits:

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Aristotle with a Bust of Homer, 1653, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Self Portrait, 1660, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

In Praise of Painting, Dutch Masterpieces at The Met, Brochure from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Anonymous, Portrait of Antonio Ruffo, 1673, Messina, Arciconfraternità degli Azzurri.

Bust of Roman poet Virgil, Parco della Grotta di Posillipo, Piedigrotta, Naples.

Tommaso da Modena, Saint Albertus Magnus, 1352, Church of San Nicolò, Treviso, Italy.

Bust of Homer, Roman copy of a lost Hellenistic original of the 2nd c. BC, London, British Museum.

Alexander the Great, Roman copy of Greek original bust from 3rd century BC, Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek.

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Self-portrait with Saskia, 1635, Dresden, Gemaldegalerie Alte Meister.

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, 1632, Mauritshuis, the Hague.

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp (detail), 1632,

Mauritshuis, the Hague.

McCandlish Phillips, New York Times, 42,000 View $2,300,000 Rembrandt at Metropolitan, November 19, 1961.

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Hale, Robert Beverly, et al. "Reports of the Departments." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Vol. 21, no. 2 (1962): 58-90. doi:10.2307/3257924.

Held, Julius S. “Rembrandt’s Aristotle.” In the Rembrandt’s Aristotle and Other Rembrandt Studies, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, (1990): 17–58.

Jonker, Menno. "Rembrandt's Philosopher: Aristotle in the Eye of the Beholder." Journal          of Historians of Netherlandish Art, Vol. 9, no. 1 (Winter 2017).

Liedtke, Walter. Dutch Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2 vols. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art/New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. 627- 654.

North, Michael, and Catherine Hill. Art and Commerce in the Dutch Golden Age. Yale University Press, 1997.

Quodbach, Esmée. "The Age of Rembrandt: Dutch Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New Series, Vol. 65, no. 1 (2007): 1-72.

Rousseau, Theodore. "Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 20, no. 5 (1962): 149-56. doi:10.2307/3257965.

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Schwartz, Gary. Rembrandt: His Life, His Paintings. London, England; New York, USA: Penguin Books, 1991.

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