Why it matters
The white-bearded Cynic philosopher Crates, dressed in rags to show the poverty he chose, points to a line in a book and looks straight at us. It belongs to Ribera's series of great thinkers of antiquity.
Did you know?
- It is signed and dated 1636.
- He also holds a written scroll.
- The National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo bought it in 1989.
Based on the French Wikipedia article Cratès (Ribera) (CC BY-SA 4.0).
