The sleeping philosopher Demokritus amid antique fragments, animal skulls and half dead trees sleeps ancient philosopher Democritus of Abdera. Beside him are an oil lamp and a celestial globe. He is in the traditional attitude of the personification of sleep and night: the curved arm overhead. With inscription derived from the preamble of an ode to Horace: Integer vitae scelerisque purus (Hor: Lib I. Od:. 22), which refers to an upright of life, free of zonden. Manufacturer : print maker: Giovanni David (indicated on object) in its design: Giovanni David (listed building) editor: Teodoro Viero
The sleeping philosopher Demokritus amid antique fragments, animal skulls and half dead trees sleeps ancient philosopher Democritus of Abdera. Beside him are an oil lamp and a celestial globe. He is in the traditional attitude of the personification of sleep and night: the curved arm overhead. With inscription derived from the preamble of an ode to Horace: Integer vitae scelerisque purus (Hor: Lib I. Od:. 22), which refers to an upright of life, free of zonden. Manufacturer : print maker: Giovanni David (indicated on object) in its design: Giovanni David (listed building) editor: Teodoro Viero (listed building) dedicated to Giacomo DurazzoPlaats manufacture: printmaker: Venice to own design: Venice Publisher: Venice dedicated to: Italy Date: 1775 Physical features: etching material: paper Technique: etching dimensions: sheet: h 300 mm (Inner cut plate edge.) × W 215 mm (Inner cut plate edge.) Subject: (story of) Democritus, the philosophersleeping on the ground scholar, philosopherruin of a building ~ architecture
Size: 1343px × 1860px
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