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History of Wisdom B.C.E.

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  • Mencius (372? - 298?)
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    Mencius (372? - 298?)

    Biography - Stanford About image:
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  • Job (ca 400)
    400

    Job (ca 400)

    Wikipedia About Painting -
    DRER, Albrecht
    Job and His Wife
    c. 1504
    Oil on panel, 94 x 51 cm
    Stdelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt
    Downloaded with permission from Web Gallery of Art http://www.wga.hu/index1.html
  • Diogenes (413 - 323)
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    Diogenes (413 - 323)

    biography RIBERA, Jusepe de
    Diogenes
    1637
    Oil on canvas, 76 x 61 cm
    Gemldegalerie, Dresden Downloaded with permission from Web Gallery of Art http://www.wga.hu/index1.html
  • Plato (427 - 347)
    427

    Plato (427 - 347)

    Plato - biography BERRUGUETE, Pedro
    Plato
    c. 1477
    Wood, 101 x 69 cm
    Muse du Louvre, Paris
  • Democritus (460 - 370)
    460

    Democritus (460 - 370)

    biography Painting:
    RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel
    Democritus
    1603
    Oil on canvas, 179 x 66 cm
    Museo del Prado, Madrid
  • Heraclitus (ca. 535 - 470)
    470

    Heraclitus (ca. 535 - 470)

    Heraclitus - Wikipedia About painting:
    BRAMANTE, Donato
    Heraclitus and Democritus
    1477
    Fresco transferred to canvas
    Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
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  • Confucious (551 - 479)
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    Confucious (551 - 479)

    bibliography - Wikipedia This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.
  • Lao Tzu (570 - 510)
    570

    Lao Tzu (570 - 510)

    Biography - Stanford About Image
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  • Moses (fl. 1220 - 1200)
    Jan 1, 1220

    Moses (fl. 1220 - 1200)

    Moses - Wikipedia About Painting -
    BECCAFUMI, Domenico
    Moses and the Golden Calf
    1536-37
    Oil on wood, 197 x 139 cm
    Duomo, Pisa
  • Abraham B.C.E. (1900)

    Abraham B.C.E. (1900)

    Wikipedia PROVOST, Jan
    Abraham, Sarah, and the Angel
    1520s
    Oil on wood, 71 x 58
    Muse du Louvre, Paris

  • Timeline Credits

    R.C. Solomon & K.M. Higgins (1997)
    A Passion for Wisdom
  • Socrates (469 - 399)

    Socrates (469 - 399)

    Biography - Stanford University Socrates - Wikipedia About Painting -
    PEYRON, Jean-Franois-Pierre
    The Death of Socrates
    Oil on canvas
    Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
  • Aristotle (384 - 322)

    Aristotle (384 - 322)

    Berkeley Wikipedia About Painting -
    REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn
    Aristotle with a Bust of Homer
    1653
    Oil on canvas, 143.5 x 136.5 cm
    Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  • Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) (566 - 486)

    Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) (566 - 486)

    <ahref='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautama_Buddha' >Siddhatha - Wikipedia</a> LA TOUR, Georges de
    The New-born
    1640s
    Oil on canvas, 76 x 91 cm
    Muse des Beaux-Arts, Rennes
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  • Chuang Tzu (369 - ?)

    Chuang Tzu (369 - ?)

    biography - Stanford
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