Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer

noun

1. a painting (1653) by Rembrandt.

Example Sentences

His great painting Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer was nearly lost while being sent by ship to Sicily.

From The Guardian

The previous year, Day & Meyer had stored a Rembrandt, “Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer,” auctioned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for $2.3 million, then thought to be a record price for a painting.

From New York Times

Over his desk he keeps an incongruous pair of portraits: an original of Ali by LeRoy Neiman and a print of Rembrandt's Aristotle contemplating the Bust of Homer.

From Time Magazine Archive

To most people visiting the Met, Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer, bought amid vast publicity in 1961 for $2.3 million, is still "the two-million-dollar Rembrandt."

From Time Magazine Archive

The price it was supposed to bring at Sotheby's next June was �1,000,000, or $500,000 more than the record-breaking $2,300,000 that the Metropolitan Museum of Art paid last November for Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer.

From Time Magazine Archive