Credits

Where the pictures come from

Every picture on this site is in the public domain or openly licensed. This page lists each one with its author, its licence and where it came from.

39 credited images · licences: CC0, Public domain, CC BY-SA 2.0, CC BY 2.5, No restrictions, CC BY-SA 4.0 · all sources on Wikimedia Commons.

Psykter amphora Chalkidian black-figure ware attributed to the inscriptions painter Ba000023.jpgAttributed to the Inscriptions PainterSource file · licence textCC0

Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar as young.jpgUnknown authorUnknown authorSource filePublic domain

Hannah Arendt 1933.jpgUnknown authorUnknown authorSource filePublic domain

Bust of Aristotle 02.jpgMumblerJamieSource file · licence textCC BY-SA 2.0

Confucius and His Disciples Yanzi and Huizi at the Apricot Altar (Confucius).jpgKano Tan'yû (1602–1674)Source filePublic domain

Frans Hals - Portret van René Descartes.jpgAfter Frans HalsSource filePublic domain

Diogenes Mosaic Römisch-Germanisches Museum.jpgUnknown authorUnknown authorSource filePublic domain

Du Bois, W. E. B..jpgUnknown authorUnknown authorSource filePublic domain

Hypatia Sanzio.pngRaphaelSource filePublic domain

Ibn Sina examining patient.jpgUnknown authorUnknown authorSource file · licence textCC BY 2.5

Zhang Lu-Laozi Riding an Ox (cropped).jpgZhang LuSource filePublic domain

Marcus Aurelius Metropolitan Museum.pngUser:SteerpikeSource filePublic domain

Mencius2.jpgOriginal uploader was Hardouin at en.wikipediaSource filePublic domain

John-stuart-mill 1.jpgGeorge Frederic WattsSource filePublic domain

Nagarjuna, Tibet, 1644-1911 AD - Sichuan Provincial Museum - Chengdu, China - DSC04486.jpgDaderotSource filePublic domain

Portrait-of-Kitaro-Nishida.pngUnknown authorUnknown authorSource filePublic domain

Plato Silanion Musei Capitolini MC1377 (cropped).jpgMarie-Lan NguyenSource filePublic domain

Origin and annals of "The Old south," First Presbyterian church and parish, in Newburyport, Mass., 1746-1896 (1896) (14748164586).jpgInternet Archive Book ImagesSource file · licence textNo restrictions

Gerardo Mercatore - Gerardus Mercator.jpgFrans HogenbergSource filePublic domain

Noctua minima.jpgGeorge EdwardsSource filePublic domain

Chart North and South Pole Star Map 02.jpgAnonimousSource filePublic domain

Socrates Louvre.jpgCopy of Lysippos (?)Source filePublic domain

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1772).jpgAndrés de IslasSource filePublic domain

Boycriedwolfbarlow.jpgFrancis BarlowSource filePublic domain

Pater et Filii Litigantes.jpgJacob Gole (Life time: 1660-1737)Source filePublic domain

Dschuang-Dsi-Schmetterlingstraum-Zhuangzi-Butterfly-Dream.jpgLu ZhiSource filePublic domain

Platon Cave Sanraedam 1604.jpgJan Saenredam, after Cornelis van HaarlemSource filePublic domain

Blind monks examining an elephant.jpgHanabusa ItchōSource filePublic domain

Vilhelm Pedersen, Kejserens nye klæder, ubt.jpegUnknownSource filePublic domain

Page 77 illustration b from The Fables of Æsop (Jacobs).pngRichard HeighwaySource filePublic domain

Hélie Poncet - Allegory of Summer - Walters 44173.jpgHélie PoncetSource filePublic domain

Wenceslas Hollar - The sun and the wind.jpgWenceslaus HollarSource filePublic domain

Der Ring des Gyges (Ferrara 16 Jh).jpgAnonymousUnknown authorSource filePublic domain

Dionysus Crossing the Sea.pngUnknown authorUnknown authorSource filePublic domain

Thiruvalluvar statue kanyakumari.jpgDhivya dhivi DJSource file · licence textCC BY-SA 4.0

王守仁.jpgShen Junhui (沈俊繪)Source filePublic domain

Brooklyn Museum - Mary Wollstonecraft - Timothy Cole.jpgTimothy Cole / John OpieSource filePublic domain

Portraits of Famous Men - Zhu Xi.jpgUnknown Chinese artistSource filePublic domain

Zhuangzi.pngUnknown authorUnknown authorSource filePublic domain

About these pictures

Some of these faces are imaginedSocrates wrote nothing and nobody drew him from life. Any "portrait" of him is a later sculptor's idea, and this site treats it that way rather than as a photograph.

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