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Painting by Mattia Preti

Plato and Diogenes

Artist	Mattia Preti
Year	c. 1688
Medium	Oil on canvas
Location	Sala IX, Galleria Cini, Pinacoteca of Capitoline Museum, Rome

The Plato and Diogenes is an oil on canvas painting by the Italian Baroque painter Mattia Preti, executed c. 1688. It is housed in the Pinacoteca of the Capitoline Museum in 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.

References

Entry at Musei Capitolini. Archived version

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Related	Battistello Caracciolo (possible first master) Caravaggisti

Mattia Preti

Paintings

Saint Anthony Abbot (c. 1628)
Aeneas Fleeing Troy (c. 1640–1645)
Vanitas (1650–1670)
Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery (c. 1650)
Christ and the Canaanite Woman (c. 1650)
Saint Nicholas (c. 1653)
Judith and Holofernes (c. 1653–1656)
Saint John the Baptist (c. 1653–1656)
The Return of the Prodigal Son (1656)
Madonna of Constantinople (c. 1656)
The Four Evangelists (c. 1656–1660)
Saint Sebastian (c. 1657)
Saint George on Horseback (1658)
The Return of the Prodigal Son (1658)
The Banquet of Absalom (c. 1660–1665)
Belshazzar's Feast (c. 1660–1665)
The Banquet of the Rich Glutton (c. 1665)
The Death of Sophonisba (c. 1670)
Saint John the Baptist Wearing the Red Tabard of the Order of Saint John (1671)
Plato and Diogenes (c. 1688)

Battistello Caracciolo (possible first master)
Caravaggisti

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