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HEAD OF PLATO IN TERRACOTTA FROM THE GLYPTOTHEK IN MUNICH 20th Century

Name: HEAD OF PLATO IN TERRACOTTA FROM THE GLYPTOTHEK IN MUNICH 20th Century
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HEAD OF PLATO IN TERRACOTTA FROM THE GLYPTOTHEK IN MUNICH 20th Century H: 44cm x 20cm Plato (Athens, 428/427 BC – Athens, 348/347 BC) A terracotta copy of the famous artifact preserved in the Glyptothek in Munich. Our Plato is a cast of the original preserved in this museum. From the Boehringer Collection; purchased in Italy in 1930 and precisely in Lazio, in the archaeological site of Tusculum. TUSCULUM: archaeological site (in Italian Tusculo or Tuscolo) is an ancient city in Lazio, whose foundation dates back to a pre-Roman era and whose history spans the Roman and medieval eras. It is located on the Alban Hills, in the Castelli Romani area. It was a city with notable buildings, embellished by a crown of gardens and villas, especially in its lower part, the one facing Rome The Munich Glyptothek is one of the most important museums in Germany, located in Königsplatz 3 in Munich. It exhibits collections of ancient Greek and Roman art. It was opened in 1816. Plato, son of Ariston of the deme of Collito (Athens, 428/427 BC – Athens, 348/347 BC), was an ancient Greek philosopher. Together with his teacher Socrates and his student Aristotle, he laid the foundations of Western philosophical thought. He was born in Athens to aristocratic parents: his father Ariston, who boasted among his ancestors Codrus, the last legendary king of Athens, gave him the name of his grandfather, that is, Aristocles; his mother, Perictione, according to Diogenes Laertius descended from the famous legislator Solon. His birth date is set by Apollodorus of Athens, in his Chronology, at the eighty-eighth Olympiad, on the seventh day of the month of Targellion, or at the end of May 428 BC. He had two brothers, Adeimantus and Glaucon, mentioned in his Republic, and a sister, Potone, mother of Speusippus, future student and successor, after his death, to the direction of the Academy of Athens. It was another Ariston, a wrestler from Argos, his gymnastics teacher, who called him "Plato" (from the Greek πλατύς, platýs, meaning "broad") because of the width of his shoulders. In fact, Plato practiced pancratium, a type of wrestling and boxing. Others give another derivation of the name, such as the width of the forehead or the majesty of the literary style. Diogenes Laertius, referring to Apuleius, Olympiodorus and Aelian, informs that he would have cultivated painting and poetry, writing dithyrambs, lyrics and tragedies, which would later have, together with mimes, a fundamental importance for the writing of his dialogues. According to Diogenes Laertius himself, there is a legend about his birth by Speusippus reported in the work The Funeral Banquet of Plato, according to which Plato would have actually been the son of the god Apollo, and therefore also the brother of Asclepius, "a doctor of the body, as Plato is of the immortal soul". According to this myth, Ariston, Plato's father, about to seduce Perictione would have had a vision of Apollo that would have dissuaded him from any physical relationship with the young woman, who would instead have become pregnant by the god, taken by his beauty. According to a later version, however, exposed by the unknown author of the Prolegomena, Plato is again compared to Asclepius but is called the son of Ariston. On the other hand, Speusippus, being the son of a sister of Plato, could not have failed to know that Plato was not the first but the third son of Perictione. Probably his aim was not to provide historical information on the birth of Plato, but to promote the mythification of the philosopher after his death and thus justify the cult that was paid to him in the Academy. The deification of Plato will continue in the Neoplatonic age, with some forms of excess as reported by Porphyry and Proclus, and will be remembered by the humanist Marsilio Ficino for the healing gift transmitted to him by Apollo.

Dimensions:

Height: 17.33 in (44 cm)Diameter: 7.88 in (20 cm)

Style:

Modern (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Terracotta,Hand-Crafted

Place of Origin:

Italy

Period:

20th Century

Date of Manufacture:

20th Century

Condition:

Wear consistent with age and use. good condition.

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