Diogenes. The philosopher Diogenes is shown here with a plucked chicken, which he displayed as a facetious response to Platos definition of man as a featherless biped. Quite exceptionally, Ugo da Capri did not use a line block for this impressive chiaroscuro woodcut. This masterpiece was printed with four tone blocks, indicating both the light and dark areas and theoutlines.
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