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- Nov 2021
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www.newyorker.com www.newyorker.com
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he Western tradition has never been more appealingly portrayed than in Rembrandt’s 1653 painting “Aristotle with a Bust of Homer.” Whether you stand in front of it at the Metropolitan Museum or look at it online, the painting turns you into a link in a chain that goes back three thousand years.
Not sure how they manage not to link Rembrandt's 1653 painting "Aristotle with a Bust of Homer" here.
<br>By <span title="Dutch painter and etcher (1606-1669)">Rembrandt</span> - Unknown source, Public Domain, LinkIt might also be more interesting to use the metaphor of a ladder here than a chain to give a tangential nod to Western culture's scala naturae.
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