The canonical article about this painting was written by Julius Held, who argued that the title of this  painting was misleading and that the melancholy shown by the title character represented "an  awareness of the fickleness of princely favor." Commissioned by the Sicilian noble Antonio Ruffo, this  painting was to be accompanied by a pendant commissioned from Guercino, 
The canonical article about this painting was written by Julius Held, who argued that the title of this  painting was misleading and that the melancholy shown by the title character represented "an  awareness of the fickleness of princely favor." Commissioned by the Sicilian noble Antonio Ruffo, this  painting was to be accompanied by a pendant commissioned from Guercino, as wel as two other  paintings, now lost, by the original artist, whose focus would be on the two other individuals besides the  title figure represented in this work. This work's title figure wears a wide- brimmed black hat and rests his  left hand on a gold chain, which according to Held represented worldly wealth and honor, one of the  "two sets of values," depicted in this work. The other set of values, representing what Held cal ed  "unequaled diction and thought," are represented by the object on which the title figure rests his right  hand, though he does not appear to be looking directly at it. For 10 points, identify this Rembrandt  painting depicting the teacher of Alexander the Great with a sculpted representation of a blind Greek  poet.
The canonical article about this painting was written by Julius Held, who argued that the title of this  painting was misleading and that the melancholy shown by the title character represented "an  awareness of the fickleness of princely favor."
Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer [accept anything mentioning “Aristotle” and  “Homer” as the painting is often known by multiple titles]