Alexander: I am Alexander the Great, ruler of Macedonia and Greece, destined. In fact he seems to turn back once more to his first master, Pietro da Cortona, and to have translated into high relief the latter's angular, diagonal compositions. Diogenes Posting - Alexander meets the Diogenes, 336 B.C. The movement of Algardi's figures is sinuous and full of contrapposto Puget's figures make a series of straight diagonals across the surface of the marble. Alexander meets Diogenes (who is not in the least impressed) 4 (2) Alexander meets the naked philosophers: 6 (2) Ashoka the Great is converted to pacifism by Nigrodha. Algardi breaks into the middle of his composition with a vista leading to an indefinite distance, whereas Puget carefully closes his background with an architectural setting. Whereas Algardi lays the emphasis on movement into depth, Puget keeps everything in a series of planes near the surface of the relief and parallel with it. But the differences are more striking than the similarities. The work with which it most obviously challenges comparison is Algardi's relief of the Meeting of Leo I and Attila in St Peter's. It bears the same relation as the Milo to Roman Baroque. This work is the most important marble relief which came from the hand of Puget. Diogenes replied, "Stand out of my sunlight." Alexander still declared, "If I were not Alexander, then I should wish to be Diogenes." Different versions of the story of the meeting are found in various ancient sources, most notably in Plutarch’s Life of Alexander (at 14) and Diogenes Laertius’ Lives of the Eminent Philosophers (at 6.38). The story goes that Alexander, thrilled to meet the famous philosopher (in his tub), asked if there was any favour he might do for him. It is possible that the meeting of Alexander and Diogenes (which our Roman Musonius passed by) is, at this point, a Greek trope it is difficult to say. Alexander would have been twenty at the time, and Diogenes would have been around seventy. The relief represents the meeting of Alexander the Great and Diogenes "the Cynic", the Greek philosopher (about 412 BC-399 BC), which probably occurred at the Isthmian Games. After conquering the Achaemenid Persian Empire, the Macedonian army undertook an expedition into the Indian subcontinent. From them he carved the Milo of Crotona and the relief of Alexander and Diogenes. The Indian campaign of Alexander the Great began in 327 BC and lasted until 325 BC. Alexander visiting Diogenes MET 120463. In 1670 Puget found in the dockyards at Toulon two blocks of marble which had been abandoned there, and after some difficulty he got Colbert's permission to use them for statues. The following 36 files are in this category, out of 36 total. The Meeting of Alexander the Great and Diogenes
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