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The Death of Seneca is a 1773 oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Jacques-Louis David, now at the Petit Palais in Paris. It shows the suicide of Seneca the Younger . With its Boucher -like assembly of gesticulating figures, it was his third attempt to win the Prix de Rome , but lost to a painting on the same subject by Pierre Peyron .
Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger (/ ˈ s ɛ n ɪ k ə / SEN-ik-ə; c. 4 BC – AD 65), [1] usually known mononymously as Seneca, was a Stoic philosopher of Ancient Rome, a statesman, dramatist, and in one work, satirist, from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature.
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Latin for "Moral Letters to Lucilius"), also known as the Moral Epistles and Letters from a Stoic, is a letter collection of 124 letters that Seneca the Younger wrote at the end of his life, during his retirement, after he had worked for the Emperor Nero for more than ten years.
Manuel Domínguez Sánchez The Death of Seneca. Manuel Domínguez Sánchez (21 December 1840, Madrid - 15 April 1906, Cuenca) was a Spanish painter and illustrator in the Academic style. His early work shows some influence from the Nazarenes. Later, his style came to resemble that of Eduardo Rosales. [1]
Paulina and Seneca in Noël Hallé's La Mort de Sénèque (1750). Pompeia Paulina (/ p ɒ m ˈ p iː ə,-ˈ p eɪ ə, p ɔː ˈ l aɪ n ə /) (fl. 1st century) was the wife of the statesman, philosopher, and orator Lucius Annaeus Seneca, and she was part of a circle of educated Romans who sought to lead a principled life under the emperor Nero.
These 75 quotes by Seneca capture some of his best works and offer plenty of wisdom for going through daily life. Related: 75 Epictetus Quotes on Life, Philosophy and Empowerment. 75 Seneca Quotes. 1.
The Death of Seneca (1773). Oil on canvas. Musée du Petit-Palais, Paris. Items portrayed in this file depicts. The Death of Seneca. The Death of Seneca.
Seneca Foods has been slapped with a flagrant work safety violation in connection with the October death of a Minnesota cannery worker. Jose Luis Alvarado, who worked at Seneca Foods' plant in ...