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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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Van Gogh's room in Saint Paul de Mausole. Saint-Paul-de-Mausole, twelve miles northeast of Arles, lies just outside Saint-Rémy-de-Provence in southern France.Mentioned on several occasions by Nostradamus, who was born nearby and knew it a Franciscan convent, [1] it was originally an Augustinian priory dating from the 12th century, and has a particularly beautiful cloister. [2]
The period leading up to the apparent self-inflicted gunshot death of iconic artist Vincent van Gogh has been debated since the tragedy occurred in 1890.
During his lifetime, only one of Van Gogh's paintings, The Red Vineyard, was sold. Born into an upper-middle-class family, Van Gogh drew as a child and was serious, quiet and thoughtful, but showed signs of mental instability. As a young man, he worked as an art dealer, often travelling, but became depressed after he was transferred to London ...
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 ...