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TITLE:  Diogenes with the featherless cock

CALL NUMBER:  FP - XVI - C298, no. 5 (A size) [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-DIG-ppmsca-18653 (digital file from original print)

RIGHTS INFORMATION:  No known restrictions on publication.

SUMMARY:  Print showing Diogenes, full length portrait, sitting before an open book, holding a stick in right hand; a featherless rooster, plucked by Diogenes to challenge Plato's definition of Man, stands on the right, in the background.

MEDIUM:  1 print : chiaroscuro woodcut, color ; 29.8 x 22.2 cm.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:  [between 1500 and 1530]

CREATOR:

Carpi, Ugo da, 1480-ca. 1532, artist.

RELATED NAMES:

Parmigianino, 1503-1540.

NOTES:

Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979, pp. 24-28.

After Parmigianino (1503-1540).

Print originally part of Pembroke album, no. 5. DLC

Graphic sampler, p. 24, no. 5

SUBJECTS:

Diogenes,--d. ca. 323 B.C.
Plato.
Philosophers--1500-1530.
Roosters--1500-1530.

FORMAT:

Allegorical prints 1500-1530.
Chiaroscuro woodcuts Color 1500-1530.

REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

DIGITAL ID:  (digital file from original print) ppmsca 18653 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.18653

CONTROL #:  2008678908



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