Plate with Alexander and Diogenes
On this plate, Alexander the Great (356-323 BCE) is shown visiting Diogenes of Sinope (412-323 BCE), a Greek philosopher who lived without worldly possessions in a wooden tub. Described by the Greek biographer Plutarch (46-120 CE) in his Life of Alexander (Book 14), when Alexa...
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Guidi Collection [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [no. 40]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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