Hendrick ter brugghen heraclitus biography death

Hendrick ter Brugghen c. The Greek sage Heraclitus was known as the crying philosopher because he mourned the folly of mankind, while his opposite Democritus the nearby pendant could only laugh at it. Here Heraclitus looks like a melancholy old man.

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The Incredulity of Thomas. Hendrick ter Brugghen signed by artist , The Adoration of the Kings. Gift of B. Asscher, Amsterdam and H. Koetser, Amsterdam. Public domain. Asscher and H. Koetser, London, ; on loan to the Centraal Museum, Utrecht,