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[Aristophanes, bust portrait] – Vintage Wall Art

[Aristophanes, bust portrait] — antique engraving
[Aristophanes, bust portrait]. Antique engraving from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Aristophanes, the Athenian playwright of the late fifth and early fourth centuries BCE, is shown here as a bust portrait in engraved form. The record gives no date for the plate, so it is hard to say when it was cut or which edition it may have served. Engravings of ancient writers like Aristophanes were usually made from later imagined likenesses, since no reliable portrait from his lifetime survives. What makes such images worth a closer look is how they show later ages reconstructing classical authors, often shaping them to suit the tastes of their own time.

Medium1 print : engraving.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,001 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-117808

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