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Jesus Christ ( 5 bce %u2013 30 ce)
biography - Wikipedia About Image
GIOTTO di Bondone
No. 17 Scenes from the Life of Christ: 1. Nativity: Birth of Jesus (detail)
1304-06
Fresco, width of detail 100 cm
Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua
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165
St. Paul (ca. C.E. - ca. 65 C.E.)
biography - Wikipedia About Painting -
CARAVAGGIO
The Conversion of St. Paul
1600
Oil on cypress wood, 237 x 189 cm
Odescalchi Balbi Collection, Rome
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205
Plotinus (205 - 269)
biography - Stanford About Image
Source: Ostiense Museum, Ostia Antica - ROME, Italy
Author: anonymous
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225
Epictetus (50 -125)
biography - Wikipedia About Image
Source kunst fuer alle
Date18th century
Author Claude Reydellet, engraving by S. Beyssent
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354
St. Augustine (354 - 430)
Christian Classic Etheral Library About Painting:
BOTTICELLI, Sandro
St Augustine
1480
Fresco, 152 x 112 cm
Ognissanti, Florence
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570
Muhammed (570 - 632)
biography - Wikipedia About Image
Jami al-Tawarikh ("The Compendium of Chronicles" or "The Universal History") This illustration is in a folio in the Oriental Manuscript Section of the Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections and Archives
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Jan 1, 1030
St. Anselm 9 (ca. 1030 - 1109)
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Jan 1, 1200
Dogen (1200 - 1253)
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Jan 1, 1225
Thomas Aquinas (1225 -1274)
About painting:
LIPPI, Filippino
Scene from the Life of St Thomas Aquinas (detail)
1489-91
Fresco
Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome
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Jan 1, 1260
Meister Eckhart (1260 - 1327)
Eckhart - Wikipedia About sculpture:
GOTHIC SCULPTOR, German
Count Eckhart and Uta
c. 1245
Stone
Cathedral, Naumburg
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Jan 1, 1469
Desiderius Erasmus (1469 - 1530)
biography - Wikipedia About painting:
HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger
Erasmus
1523
Oil on wood, 43 x 33 cm
Muse du Louvre, Paris
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Jul 24, 1483
Martin Luther (1483-1546)
biography - Wikipedia About Painting:
CRANACH, Lucas the Elder
Portrait of Martin Luther
1543
Panel
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Jan 1, 1533
Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
Montaigne - Wikipedia About painting:
RICHARD, Fleury-Franois
Montaigne and Tasso
1821
Oil on canvas, 130 x 100 cm
Muse des Beaux-Arts, Lyon
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Jan 1, 1561
Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
biography - Stanford Author Unknown
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Jan 1, 1564
Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)
Biography Painting by:
SUSTERMANS, Justus
Portrait of Galileo Galilei
Oil on canvas, 56 x 48 cm
Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence
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Renee Descartes (1596 - 1650)
Biography - Stanford About painting:
HALS, Frans
Ren Descartes
c. 1649
Oil on panel, 19 x 14 cm
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
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Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
biography - Wikipedia About Image
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John Locke (1632 - 1704)
biography - Stanford About Image
Portrait of John Locke, by Sir Godfrey Kneller. Oil on canvas. 76x64 cm. Britain, 1697. Source of Entry: Collection of Sir Robert Walpole, Houghton Hall, 1779. State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
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David Hume (1711 - 1776)
Biography - Stanford About painting:
RAMSAY, Allan
Portrait of David Hume
1766
Oil on canvas
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
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Jean-Jacque Rousseau (1712 - 1778)
Biography - Lucid Cafe About painting:
LA TOUR, Maurice Quentin de
Portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1753
Pastel, 47 x 38 cm
Muse d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva
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Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)
Kant's Moral Philosophy - Stanford About Image
Source:
http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/History/Carnegie/kant/portrait.html
18th century painting
Author %u2013 unspecified
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 %u2013 1831)About Image
biography - Stanford About Image
Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855): Bildnis des Philosophen Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Berlin 1831Gallery: Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin, A I 556
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Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 %u2013 1860)
biography - Stanford About Image
This portrait of Schopenhauer was painted in April 1859 by J. Lunteschtz. It appears to be directly based on this daguerreotype of Schopenhauer.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 %u2013 1882)
biography - Stanford About Image
The image of author, essayist, poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), "head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right".
Most likely a "drawing by Sam W. Rowse in the possession of Charles Eliot Norton, Esq.", but%u2014perhaps%u2014a work "engraved and published by S.A. Schoff, 1878", from that drawing.
Source - http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/poets/emerson.php
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Charles Darwin (1809 %u2013 1882)
Darwinism - Stanford About Image
"Charles Darwin, aged 51." Scanned from Karl Pearson, The Life, Letters, and Labours of Francis Galton. Photo originally from the 1859 or 1860.
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Soren Kierkegaard (1813 %u2013 1855)
biography - Stanford About Image
Source: Royal Library of Denmark - Kierkegaard Manuscript
http://www2.kb.dk/kultur/expo/sk-mss//index-en.htm
http://www2.kb.dk/kultur/expo/sk-mss//engkat4.htm
Author - Neils Christian Kierkegaard
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Frederick Douglas (1817 %u2013 1895)
biography - PBS About Image
This image is available from the Archival Research Catalog of the National Archives and Records Administration under the ARC Identifier 558770
Photograph by George K. Warren (d. 1884).
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 %u2013 1862)
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William James (1842 %u2013 1910)
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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 %u2013 1900)
biography - Stanford About Image
Photograph by Gebr. Siebe.
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Sigmund Freud (1856 %u2013 1936)
biography - Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Author: Edmund Engelman, from book Sigmund Freud: Berggasse 19, Vienna. Universe Publishing (November 15, 1998).This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division under the digital ID cph.3b19621About Image
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John Dewey (1859 %u2013 1952)
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Miguel de Unamuno (1864 -1936)
biography - Stanford About Image
Source: http://www.peonesnegroslibres.com/foro/viewtopic.php?f=6&p=12150
Author %u2013 Contemporary photograph
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W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
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Author: Cornelius Marion (C.M.) Battey (1873%u20131927
Source: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a53178
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Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
biography - WikipediaAbout image: A rare studio photograph of Gandhi taken in London at the request of Lord Irwin, 1931.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 -1970)
biography - Stanford About image
Source: http://russell.mcmaster.ca/~bertrand/youngbr.html
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Martin Heidegger (1889 %u2013 1976)
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Jean Paul Sartre (1905 %u2013 1980)
biography - Stanford About image
Source: http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3c10000/3c16000/3c16900/3c16963v.jpg
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Simone de Beauvoir (1908 %u2013 1986)
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Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
biography - Wikipedia About photograph:
Source: http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3c00000/3c08000/3c08000/3c08032v.jpg
New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection
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Malcolm X (1925 - 1965)
biography - Wikipedia About photograph:
Malcolm X
Source: Library of Congress. New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c11166
Date: March 12, 1964
Author: Ed Ford, World Telegram staff photographer
Permission: PD. "No copyright restriction known. Staff photographer reproduction rights transferred to Library of Congress through Instrument of Gift." [1]
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Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 - 1968)
biography - Wikipedia about photograph:
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Source: Library of Congress. New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c26559
Date: 1964
Author: Dick DeMarsico, World Telegram staff photographer
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Marcus Aurelius (121 - 180)
biography painting by: VIEN, Joseph-Marie
Marcus Aurelius Distributing Bread to the People
1765
Oil on canvas, 300 x 301 cm
Muse de Picardie, Amiens
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al - Kindi ( ca. 800-866)
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