Title

Diogenes Asking Alexander the Great to Step Aside (recto), n.d. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

Diogenes Asking Alexander the Great to Step Aside (recto); (Striding Academic Male Nude (verso)), n.d. The Greek philosopher Diogenes asks Alexander to stand out of his sun.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM22B28_433

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NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

19,0Mb (1,4Mb) / 10,0in x 7,4in / 3000 x 2219 (300dpi)

Keywords

people male man men arts light country French France science monarch art guy beard shade color king royal shadow shadows Greece darkness location century drawing gallery gesturing chalk philosophy bearded royalty physics B&W hand gesture facial hair MONOCHROME art gallery charcoal hand Gestures Colour 19th century black & white black and white B W Ancient Greece white and black Ancient Greek nineteenth century philosopher sovereign TGN Alexander the Great Diogenes Unknown King of Macedonia Alexander III of Macedon Iskander Iskandar Art Institute of Chicago art centre Alexander III of Macedonia Heritage Art Diogenes the Cynic Diogenes of Sinope 19th-century Art Institute Chicago Prints and Drawings Charcoal and black chalk with stumping heightened with white chalk (recto) and charcoal with stumping (verso) on cream laid paper with blue fibers