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TITLE:  The philosopher Diogenes and the allegory of astronomy

CALL NUMBER:  FP - XVI - A635, no. 35 (A size) [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-DIG-ppmsca-18683 (digital file from original print)

RIGHTS INFORMATION:  No known restrictions on publication.

SUMMARY:  Allegorical print showing a seated man thinking and another figure looking at a globe.

MEDIUM:  1 print : chiaroscuro woodcut, color ; 10.3 x 14.8 cm.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:  [between 1530 and 1550]

CREATOR:

Trento, Antonio da, ca. 1508-ca. 1550, 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. 35. DLC

Graphic sampler, p. 26, no. 35

SUBJECTS:

Diogenes,--d. ca. 323 B.C.
Philosophers--1530-1550.
Thinking--1530-1550.
Astronomy--1530-1550.

FORMAT:

Allegorical prints 1530-1550.
Chiaroscuro woodcuts Color 1530-1550.

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 18683 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.18683

CONTROL #:  2008678903



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