A philosopher in a broad black hat and wide, gold-lit sleeves rests his hand on a bust of the blind poet Homer, his shadowed eyes lost in thought. Rembrandt painted it for the Sicilian collector Antonio Ruffo, who left the subject open. The sitter has been read as Aristotle since Julius Held's 1969 study, though other identities have been proposed.
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The medallion on his heavy gold chain bears a portrait of Alexander the Great, Aristotle's pupil, one of the clues used to identify the sitter.
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