The Death of Socrates photograph

The Death Of Socrates

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Artists Jacques-Louis David
Dimensions1. 3 m x 1. 96 m
Locations The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Created1777–1787
Periods Neoclassicism
Subject Socrates
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Date of Upd.
ID1211892
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About The Death Of Socrates


The Death of Socrates is an oil on canvas painted by French painter Jacques-Louis David in 1787. The painting focuses on a classical subject like many of his works from that decade, in this case the story of the execution of Socrates as told by Plato in his Phaedo.

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