Alexander Visiting Diogenes / Salvator Rosa
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- Accession Number
- 1964/2.109
- Title
- Alexander Visiting Diogenes
- Artist
- Salvator Rosa
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Artist Life Dates
- 1615-1673
- Medium and Support
- etching and drypoint on laid paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1615-1673
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- Italy (nation)
- Lazio (region)
- Roma (province)
- Rome (inhabited place)
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Italy (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- Lazio (region)
- Creation Place 4
- Roma (province)
- Creation Place 5
- Rome (inhabited place)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Jean Paul Slusser
- Style/Group/Movement
- Baroque
- Inscription
- Signed on plate: Saluator Rosa Inu. Scul. Inscription: Sensit Alexander, testa quum uidet in illa/Magnum habitatorem... Watermark: A N, fleur-de-lis over hills ensclosed in double circle.
- Period
- Europe, Baroque (1590-1750)
- Dimensions
- 56.2 cm x 39.8 cm (22 1/8 in. x 15 11/16 in.)
- Century
- 17th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Primary Object Type
- intaglio print
- Physical Description
- A standing man in a magnificent crested helmet addresses a bearded man in bedraggled clothes sitting on the ground before the mouth of a large barrel. The latter figure turns his head to respond and extends his right hand toward the other man. A group of soldiers crowd around.
- Subject Matter
- Alexander the Great, wearing a crested helmet, approaches the philosopher Diogenes, who had famously rejected all worldly possessions to live in a burial urn. Eager to meet the philosopher, the all-powerful emperor asks what he may do for him. With a sharply dismissive wave of his right hand, Diogenes barks, "For now I want you to get out of my sunlight." Thunderstruck by this rejection, the emperor realizes that wealth and power do not bring true fulfillment.
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 851 x 1361
- File Size
- 180 KB
- Record
- 1964/2.109
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"Alexander Visiting Diogenes; Salvator Rosa." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1964-sl-2.109/1964_2.109.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 25, 2024.