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Dec 6, 2023 · The Death of Socrates. by Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker. What is worth dying for? Jacques-Louis David's The Death of Socrates. Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Socrates, 1787, oil on canvas, 129.5 x 196.2 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) Additional resources. This work at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Title: The Death of Socrates. Artist: Jacques Louis David (French, Paris 1748–1825 Brussels) Date: 1782. Medium: Black chalk, brush and gray wash, touches of pen and black and brown ink, with two irregularly shaped fragments of paper affixed to the sheet and a strip added along the upper margin. Dimensions: Sheet: 9 1/4 × 14 3/4 in. (23.5 × ...
About The Death of Socrates. “The Death of Socrates” is an oil on canvas painting by Jacques-Louis David completed in the year 1787. It exemplifies the Neoclassical movement, which was characterized by a fascination with classical themes and an emphasis on moral virtue exemplified through history painting. The artwork’s dimensions are 130 ...
May 5, 2022 · Jacques Louis David (French, 1748–1825). The Death of Socrates, 1782. Black chalk, brush and gray wash, touches of pen and black and brown ink, with two irregularly shaped fragments of paper affixed to the sheet and a strip added along the upper margin. 9 1/4 x 14 3/4 in. (23.5 x 37.5 cm). Private Collection.
This is Jacques-Louis David's "The Death of Socrates." It was painted in 1787, just two years before the outbreak of the French Revolution. - [Beth] We have this central figure who points up toward the heavens, who's old, but noble, and seems so wise. Around him, figures who appear to be grieving.
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The art of Jacques Louis David embodies the style known as Neoclassicism, which flourished in France during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.David championed a style of rigorous contours, sculpted forms, and polished surfaces; history paintings, such as his Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of His Sons (Musée du Louvre, Paris) of 1789, were intended as moral exemplars.
The Death of Socrates Jacques-Louis David ca. 1786. The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York City, United States.
