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||8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| A Closer Look at Descartes - the Painting|By David B. Johnson|This book is an example of what I call, for lack of a better term, `popularized intellectual history' where the author takes some interesting historical event or puzzle and uses it to provide a non-technical introduction to a particular thinker. (Other examples of this type of work are Matthew Stewart's The Courtier| |"Steven Nadler has produced another gem of original research and lively and lucid writing."--Catherine Wilson, Times Literary Supplement

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In the Louvre museum hangs a portrait that is considered the iconic image of René Descartes, the great seventeenth-century French philosopher. And the painter of the work? The Dutch master Frans Hals--or so it was long believed, until the work was downgraded to a copy of an original. But where is the authentic version, and who painted it? Is the man in the painting--and in its original--really Descartes?

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You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter: A Portrait of Descartes   |  Steven Nadler. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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