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Euklid 2 - Public domain portrait painting
Summary
"Euclid of Megara" (lat: Evklidi Megaren), Panel from the Series 'Famous Men', Justus of Ghent, about 1474, Panel, 102 x 80 cm, Urbino, Galleria Nazionale delle Marche. This picture is meant to represent the famous mathematician Euclid of Alexandria, who was, in medieval times, wrongly identified with Euclid of Megara, the disciple of Socrates.
Justus van Gent (1410–1480) was an Early Netherlandish painter who after training and working in Flanders later moved to Italy where he worked for the duke of Urbino. The artist is known for his religious compositions executed in the early Netherlandish idiom and a series of portraits of famous men, which show the influence of early Italian Renaissance painting.
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Date
1250 - 1550
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Wikimedia Commons
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public domain
