Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Giorgione - Three Philosophers - Google Art Project.jpg

Three Philosophers by Giorgione.
Voting period ends on 11 Nov 2014  at 21:32:43 (UTC)


 * Reason: Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco or Giorgione's enigmatic masterwork. Nobody knows for sure who the men are. In Giorgione's picture the old man, the Arab figure and the young man could be depiction of the Transmission of the Classics from the ancient Greeks philosophy trough the Arab translations, that became actual again around the Italian Renaissance. The old man is representing a Greek philosopher, such as Plato or Aristotle, whose writings have been copied and  transmited through the Arab philosophers to the Italian Renaissance. The Arab philosopher is possibly representing the polyhistor Avicenna or Averroes, Arab philosophers and Arab scientists from the Islamic Golden Age. The young man could be seen as the new Renaissance science with roots in the past, looking into the empty darkness of the cave, symbolizing the yet undiscovered secrets - or the cave is a symbol for the philosophic concept of Plato's Cave. Could be also a representation of man's ages.
 * Articles in which this image appears:The Three Philosophers, own article.
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
 * Creator: Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco


 * Support as nominator – Hafspajen (talk) 21:32, 1 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Support - Useful scan. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 10:48, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
 * HOLY MOLLY -PEOLPLE - this truly a well know picture - why not make a google search? Hafspajen (talk) 15:48, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 21:43, 11 November 2014 (UTC)