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The Three Philosophers
The Three Philosophers is an oil painting on canvas attributed to the Italian High Renaissance artist Giorgione. 
It shows three philosophers – one young, one middle-aged, and one old.
The work was commissioned by the Venetian noble Taddeo Contarini, a Venetian merchant with an interest in the occult and alchemy. "The Three Philosophers" was finished one year before the painter died. One of Giorgione’s last paintings, it is now displayed at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. 
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Plato's text. This tradition of creator God as "nous" (the manifestation of consciousness), can be validated in the works of pre-Plotinus philosophers such as Numenius, as well as a connection between Hebrew and Platonic cosmology (see also Philo).
The Demiurge of Neoplatonism is the "Nous" (mind of God), and is one of the three ordering principles:
- "Arche" (Gr. "beginning") – the source of all things,
- "Logos"