| Maker(s): | Testa, Pietro
| | Culture: | Italian (Lucca 1611/12-Rome1650)
| | Title: | The Symposium (also called "Socrates at the table with his friends"; "The Seven Sages of Greece"; "The Drunken Alcibiades Interrupting the Symposium")
| | Date Made: | 1648
| | Type: | Print
| | Materials: | Engraving, black ink on ivory paper
| | Place Made: | Europe; Italy
| | Measurements: | mat: 16 in x 22 in; 40.64 cm x 55.88 cm; sheet: 10 in x 14 3/4 in; 25.4 cm x 37.465 cm
| | Narrative Inscription: | Obverse of image: upp. l. (printed in black ink): Vina, dapes onerant / animos Sapientia / nutrit. Obverse of sheet: lwr. l. (printed in black ink): Ilustrissimo, atque Ormatiss. D.D. FABRITO CELLESIO. Equiti S. Stephani / In symposio de Amore disserentes, te Virtutis amantem, uocant Conuiam. / Ars mea nuta est; tuas recitabit laudes, siue Socrates, siue Alcibiades, Vale. / T.D. Additissimus Petrus Testa, 1648. Reverse: lwr. l. (in brown ink): 2 (?)
| | Accession Number: | MH 2008.4.1
| | Credit Line: | Purchase with the John Martyn Warbeke Art Fund
| | Museum Collection: | Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
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Description:
Black and white composition with a group of figures seated at a table at center of the foreground, with a standing nude male figure at left displaying a laurel wreath and two other standing figures at right. Architecture, trees, and statuary in the background.
Tags:
statues; male; nudes; sitting Link to share this object record:
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