Plato and Diogenes (Mattia Preti)
The Plato and Diogenes is a painting by the Italian Baroque painter Mattia Preti and housed in the Pinacoteca of the Capitoline Museum in Rome, Italy.
Platone e Diogene (Plato and Diogenes) | |
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Artist | Mattia Preti |
Year | circa 1688 |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Location | Sala IX, Galleria Cini, Pinacoteca of Capitoline Museum, Rome |
Description
The painting is listed in 1688 inventories of the Sacchetti collections; but not attributed to Preti until 1725. It was painted to hang alongside a painting by the same artist depicting two other Greek philosophers, Heraclitus and Democritus, now found in the Pinacoteca Vaticana. The scholarly Plato is depicted dressed in a fine fur coat against a wall, displaying one of his texts, while Diogenes, in a drap cloak, holds a lamp in the darkness, and points to Plato.[1]
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