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Democritus meditating on the seat of the soul




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Artist
Léon-Alexandre Delhomme
Title
English: Democritus meditating on the seat of the soul
Français : Démocrite méditant sur le siège de l'âme
Date 1868
Medium bronze

Collection

Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon

Current location
Gardens
Accession number
Inv. A 3066
Credit line purchase, 1873
Inscriptions on the plaque: Hippocrate arriva dans le temps que celui qu'on disait n'avoir ni raison ni sens cherchait dans l'homme et dans la bête quel siège a la raison, soit le cœur, soit la tête (La Fontaine)

References Joconde database: entry 000SC025357
Source/Photographer Jean-Louis Lascoux (13 January 2008)
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Artist
Léon-Alexandre Delhomme
Title
English: Democritus meditating on the seat of the soul
Français : Démocrite méditant sur le siège de l'âme
Date 1868
Medium bronze
Collection

Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon

Current location
Gardens
Accession number
Inv. A 3066
Credit line purchase, 1873
Inscriptions on the plaque: Hippocrate arriva dans le temps que celui qu'on disait n'avoir ni raison ni sens cherchait dans l'homme et dans la bête quel siège a la raison, soit le cœur, soit la tête (La Fontaine)

References Joconde database: entry 000SC025357
Source/Photographer Jean-Louis Lascoux (13 January 2008)
Permission
(Reusing this file)
I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following licenses:
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.




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