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Description: | Panini was the leading painter of ancient ruins in Rome, making them not only the backdrop to a composition but the main subject of painting. Panini specialized in capricci of Roman ruins. Of these, some are accurate topographical records (vedute reale) while others, such as this painting, are all, or in part, imaginary (vedute ideale). This genre of painting, with a primary focus on classical ruins, was known as Rovinismo. This painting is a variant of the Diogenes in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. An episode from the life of the fourth century BC Cynic philosopher, Diogenes can be seen taking place in the foreground. Diogenes believed in a life of extreme simplicity. On seeing a child drinking from his cupped hands, Diogenes threw away his own cup saying that the child had surpassed him in simplicity. This composition includes the Farnese Hercules, Hercules and the Hydra (facing), Trajan's Column and the Colosseum. | Subjects: | buildings and gardens | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Panini, Giovanni Paolo (Italian painter, ca. 1692-1765) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8381... | Go to resource |
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