Diogenes statuette
- Title:
- Diogenes statuette
- Collection:
- Cornell Cast Collection
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Photographer:
- Mericle, Danielle
- Date:
- ca. 1890-1900
2nd c. CE (Roman copy)
3rd or 2nd c. BCE (Hellenistic original)
2009 (image)
- Location:
- Goldwin Smith Hall (Room GM 08), Cornell University
previously, Goldwin Smith Hall (Room G 48, Dendro Lab) - ID Number:
- CCC_0648
- Accession Number:
- Sage no. 283
1627 carved on front of plinth
rest of sticker in front: "..3" > Sage # 283 (label)
637 - File Name:
- CCC_0648.tif
- Original Measurements:
- 54.6 (H) cm
- Culture:
- Roman, after Hellenistic
- Style/Period:
- Roman Imperial, after Hellenistic
- Work Type:
- casts (sculpture)
statuettes (free-standing sculpture) - Materials/Techniques:
- plaster cast (sculpture)
marble sculpture in the round (original) - Subject:
- Diogenes, the Cynic
- Image View Type:
- overall
- Image View Description:
- from front
- Measurement:
- 54.5 x 28 x 19.4 (centimeters, height x width x diameter)
- Description:
- This is a cast of a heavily restored statuette of Diogenes, the Cynic philosopher, in the Villa Albani Collection in Rome. The aged, naked philosopher leans his left hip against a tree stump, extends his right leg forward, and stoops towards his right. He bends his left arm at the elbow and holds an open disc lamp in his lowered right hand. He is balding and has mid-length, curly hair and a long, curly beard. Age is indicated by a paunch and by sagging skin on the face, chest, and back. A dog sits to his left in front of the stump. The original from which this cast was made is heavily restored. The head, torso, shoulders, upper arms, and right thigh and knee are ancient. A very heavily restored and almost identical statue of Diogenes, now in the Metropolitan in New York (no. 22.139.1) but previously in the Albani Collection, is composed around a meager assortment of fragments that might belong with the fragments from this statuette. On this, see both Richter and Hoff.
- Notes:
- Items in the Cornell Cast Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes. Metadata may not be complete in all cases.
no. 942 - Bibliography:
- Gisela Richter, The Portraits of the Greeks, vol. II (London: Phaidon Press, 1965), 182-184, no. 2, fig. 1057
Ralf von den Hoff, Philosophenporträts des Früh- und Hochhellenismus (Munich: Biering und Brinkmann, 1994), 129-130
Paul Zanker, The Mask of Socrates: The Image of the Intellectual in Antiquity, trans. by Alan Shapiro (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), 176-179, fig. 94 - Repository:
- Cornell University (current)
Rome, Villa Albani (original) - Collecting Program:
- Cornell Collections of Antiquities
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The images in the Cornell Collection of Antiquities: Casts are protected by copyright, and the copyright holders are their creators, generally Cornell University Library, Annetta Alexandridis, and Verity Platt. This collection of plaster casts owned by Cornell University was photographed by Cornell University Library, Alexandridis, Platt, and Andreya L. Mihaloew from 2010-2015, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Annetta Alexandridis. Cornell is providing access to the materials for research and personal use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Please contact Annetta Alexandridis and Verity Platt for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images.