Sir Peter Paul Rubens was probably the first northerner to treat the theme in a lost painting of circa 1618-20. Caption Diogenes of Sinope Greek philosopher Died 323 BC. Information about image downloads and licensing is available here. The theme of Diogenes Searching for an Honest Man was a favorite among Netherlandish artists in the seventeenth century, not in the least for the philosopher’s abandonment of worldly goods and adoption of an ascetic life. Three years after this painting was first exhibited, Gerome was appointed a professor of painting at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts where he would instruct many students, both French and foreign. History or Mythology oil painting online. Buy paintings of Poussin Nicolas from France. (Greek: 'kynikos,' dog-like) philosophy, which emphasized an austere existence. Oil paintings gallery - the best place to buy paintings online. To help improve this record, please email. 74.5 x 101 cms 29 1/4 x 39 3/4 ins Oil on canvas.
By way of contrast, we might look now to Ligare's Landscape with Diogenes. Object information is a work in progress and may be updated as new research findings emerge. My point in juxtaposing Poussin's painting with An Eviction is to emphasize. Status Currently Off View Department Prints and Drawings Artist Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione Title Diogenes Seeking an Honest Man Date Made 1645–1647 Medium Etching on cream laid paper Dimensions 219 × 306 mm (image) 220 × 310 mm (plate) Credit Line The Charles Deering Collection Reference Number 1939.313 IIIF Manifest The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) represents a set of open standards that enables rich access to digital media from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions around the world. Instead of finding a man, the shoeless philosopher stumbles upon bones, vegetables, decaying bits of statues, and scavenging owls and monkeys. In this etching, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione showed Diogenes searching by lamplight, during the daytime, for a rational man. Believing that virtue was better revealed through action than theory, he maintained an ascetic lifestyle while deliberately acting out against what he found to be irrational societal customs. He begged for a living and often slept in a large ceramic jar in the marketplace, as Waterhouse has depicted him in this 1882 painting. Diogenes the Cynic, a contemporary of Plato, is famous for having been an outspoken and contentious critic of convention. Diogenes was a controversial figure with a reputation for sleeping and eating wherever he chose in a highly non-traditional fashion.
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