Plato discussing philosophical matters with others in the garden of the Academia. Etching by Salvator Rosa.
- Rosa, Salvatore, 1615-1673.
- Date:
- 1600-1699
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- 38760i
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Bartsch interpreted the figures as "disciples" of Plato, but they seem to be engaging in dialectic
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1600-1699
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1 print : etching ; platemark 46 x 27.3 cm
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In villa ab Academo attributa sua(m) Plato condit academiam. Salvator Rosa inv. sculp.
In the lettering, "attributa" is etched as "attriduta" by mistake
References note
Adam Bartsch, Le peintre graveur, Würzburg 1920-1922, vol. 20, p. 162, no. 3 ("Platon et ses disciples. Platon s'entretenant avec ses disciples dans les jardins de son académie. On voit ce philosophe assis sur une butte, faisant une démonstration à celui de ses disciples qui est adossé contre un arbre à la droite de l'estampe")
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Wellcome Collection 38760i
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