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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]
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The Death of Socrates, by Jacques-Louis David Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette , by Vincent van Gogh Almond Blossoms , by Vincent van Gogh (edited by Crisco 1492 )
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 ...
Van Gogh did not begin painting until his late twenties, and most of his best-known works were produced during his final two years. He produced more than 2,000 artworks, consisting of around 900 paintings and 1,100 drawings and sketches. In 2013, Sunset at Montmajour became the first full-sized Van Gogh painting to be newly confirmed since 1928 ...
The most comprehensive primary source on Van Gogh is his correspondence with his younger brother, Theo.Their lifelong friendship, and most of what is known of Vincent's thoughts and theories of art, are recorded in the hundreds of letters they exchanged from 1872 until 1890. [8]
Vincent van Gogh is one of the most famous painters in history. His death, from alleged suicide, has been brought into question as potentially being an accidental homicide. Pulitzer-prize winning ...
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