A philosopher with a celestial globe. Oil painting, ca. 162-.

When the painting was in the possession of Count Galletti at the Torre del Gallo, the sitter was thought to be Galileo, but not by A. Favaro, who regarded it as a likeness of a generic philosopher (Domus galilaeana, Pisa, Carteggio Favaro, Lettera n. 8554). On the table are mathematical instruments, a book and writing equipment. Behind and to the left is a celestial globe

The philospher resembles Michelangelo as represented in portraits -- possibly by coincidence

[162?-?]

1 painting : oil on canvas ; canvas 105.4 x 150.5 cm

A. Favaro, in Atti del Reale Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, vol. 72, 1913, p. ?

J. J. Fahie, Memorials of Galileo, Leamington Spa 1929, p. 52, no. XV.4

Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi and Alessandro Tosi, Il cannocchiale e il pennello: nuova scienza e nuova arte nell'età di Galileo, Firenze: Giunti, 2009 (Gamm, Giunti arte mostre musei), p. 322 (reproduced) and no. 151, p. 387

Wellcome Collection 45633i