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The Death of Socrates (French: La Mort de Socrate) is an oil on canvas painted by French painter Jacques-Louis David in 1787. The painting was part of the neoclassical style, popular in the 1780s, that depicted subjects from the Classical age, in this case the story of the execution of Socrates as told by Plato in his Phaedo. [1]
The Death of Socrates: 1787 oil on canvas 130 × 196 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Loves of Paris and Helen: 1788 oil on canvas 147 × 180 Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris: Portrait of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and his wife: 1788 oil on canvas 260 × 195 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of ...
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Created in the months after Marat's death, the painting shows Marat lying dead in his bath after his assassination by Charlotte Corday on 13 July 1793. [2] In 2001, art historian T. J. Clark called David's painting the first modernist work for "the way it took the stuff of politics as its material, and did not transmute it". [3]
The painting was very much in tune with the political climate at the time. For this painting, David was not honored by a royal "works of encouragement". The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons (1789) For his next painting, David created The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons. The work had tremendous appeal for the time.
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The Death of Chatterton; Death of Cleopatra (Rosso Fiorentino) The Death of Cleopatra; The Death of Dido; The Death of Seneca (David) The Death of Socrates; The Death of Sophonisba (Preti) Drowning Girl; The Dying Cleopatra
Pages in category "Paintings by Jacques-Louis David" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. ... The Death of Seneca (David) The Death of Socrates;