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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: 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 ...
The Death of Socrates (1787) In 1787, David did not become the Director of the French Academy in Rome, which was a position he wanted dearly. The Count in charge of ...
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The Death of Socrates, by Jacques-Louis David (1787). Socrates was visited by friends in his last night in prison. His discussion with them gave rise to Plato's Crito and Phaedo. [68] Socrates was given the chance to offer alternative punishments for himself after being found guilty.
The newly deciphered text also gives further clarity to the circumstances surrounding how Plato was sold as a slave in either 399 BC after the death of Socrates or in 404 BC on the island of ...
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;