Portrait of Guillaume Budé

034a_Id_9_Painted_portrait_of_Guillaume_Bude_by_Jean_Clouet
Creator
Jean Clouet
Creation-date
1536
Technique
Painting
Material
Oil on wood
Inventory number
Inv. 46.68
Subject-1
Guillaume Budé
Object-Current-Location
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Digital resource author
GrECI Project
Digital-resource-rights holder
University of Oslo (for GrECI project)
Image-number
034a_Id_9
License
CC BY

Description

This portrait illustrates how writing in Greek became an integral part of establishing scholarly identity in Europe during the 16th century. The famous French humanist Guillaume Budé notes down a line of Greek from Stobaeus (3.5.18), which reads: "Although it seems good to obtain what one desires, the greatest good is not to desire what one does not need".
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