Plato – Vintage Wall Art
![Plato, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e1/e1c1f06c4237-L.webp)
(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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Step back in time with Plato, an antique engraving rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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This engraving of Plato comes from André Thevet's French collection of portraits of illustrious men, which pairs images of famous figures with short biographies. Thevet, a cosmographer and traveler, assembled the series in the late sixteenth century, when European readers were eager for likenesses of ancient writers and rulers. Plato (about 428 to 348 BCE) was an Athenian philosopher, Socrates' student, and founder of the Academy, one of the earliest organized schools in the Western world. Because no artist's likeness of Plato from life survives, the portrait reflects how Renaissance printmakers imagined the ancient thinker.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Notes | Engraving in Thevet. Rare Book Division. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,118 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-108230 |
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