The poet, standing crowned with laurel, leaning on a stone, 1620–21, Etching, Sheet: 6 3/8 × 4 15/16 in. (16.2 × 12.6 cm), Prints, Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto) (Spanish, Játiva 1591–1652 Naples), Dressed in voluminous robes, crowned with laurel, and leaning on a stone with head in hand, The Poet is one of Ribera's most striking images made early in the artist's career. The iconography, a synthesis of the attributes of Melancholy and Poetry, has been explored in detail by scholars, who have found literary parallels ranging from verses by Walther von der Vogelweide (1170?–1230) to works by Petrarch and Lorenzo de' Medici
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