Art Institute of Chicago
Diogenes Casting Away His Bowl
Salvator RosaLinkedCulture matchlcp-889caa857911
- Date
- 1661–62
- Medium
- Etching and drypoint on dark cream laid paper
- Culture
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 140637
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
Diogenes di Sinope (413-323 B.C.), an ascetic philosopher of Athens and Corinth, is said to have eschewed worldly goods to such an extent that he threw away his drinking bowl upon seeing a youth drinking water from cupped hands. This famous etching by Salvator Rosa reproduces (in reverse) the artist’s painting of the same subject in the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen (1651/52).
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- Credit line
- Suzanne Lord Folds and Everett D. Graff endowment funds
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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