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Démocrite méditant sur le siège de l'âme

Democritus meditating on the seat of the soul

Léon-Alexandre Delhomme
1868

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Description

Statue of the Greek philosopher Democritus, his eyes fixed on a skull he holds in his hands. It was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1868. On its base is inscribed an extract from the 29th fable of La Fontaine: "Hippocrates in time arrived at the conclusion that he had not sought whether the heart or the head was the seat of either reason or sense in man and beast.".

Inscription(s)

---- Hippocrate arriva dans le temps
que celui qu'on disait n'avoir ni raison ni sens
cherchait dans l'homme et dans la bete
quel siege a la raison, soit le coeur, soit la tete.

(la fontaine)

Lyon - Démocrite méditant sur le siège de l'âme

Jardin du Palais Saint-Pierre

The garden of the Palais Saint-Pierre is a municipal garden located within the the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon. It is a rectangular garden delimited by the arcades of the old cloister of the Benedictine abbey. It is located right in the city center on the peninsula. Like the Museum, the garden is open every day, except Tuesdays and holidays.

In the garden a number of sculptures of the museum is placed:

Bronze sculptures

Marble sculptures

At the walls:

Sculptor

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Item Code: frra106; Photograph: 12 August 2018
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