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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:
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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