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Alcibiades, Plato, and Socrates are all identified by inscriptions, no longer visible to the naked eye, made in Rubens’s hand. At the far right of the sheet, two participants in the symposium, perhaps the playwright Aristophanes and the physician Erixymachus, remain engaged in deep conversation, apparently oblivious to Alcibiades’s arrival.
Apr 22, 2020 · Marcello Bacciarelli (c. 1731-1818), an Italian artist who relocated to Poland, painted this scene that features (on the left) the Athenian leader, Alcibiades, and (on the right) the great philosopher, Socrates. Well-endowed with good looks and intelligence, Alcibiades had no shortage of people who wanted to befriend and mentor him during his youth. Socrates, as […]
Feb 17, 2021 · In this painting, the French artist, François André Vincent (c. 1746-1816), features two prominent figures from the history of ancient Greece. On the left side of the artwork, the armored individual with the salmon-colored cloak draped over his gear, is the infamous Alcibiades—a brilliant, but unpredictable and unscrupulous, statesman and military leader from Athens. Opposite […]
Alcibiades was born in Athens. The family of his father, Cleinias, [3] had old connections with the Spartan aristocracy through a relationship of xenia, and the name "Alcibiades" was of Spartan origin. [4] [5] Alcibiades' mother was Deinomache, the daughter of Megacles, head of the powerful Alcmaeonid family, and could trace her family back to ...
Mar 2, 2023 · Socrates, the great philosopher and mentor to Alcibiades in the painting, was a strong advocate for the power of self-reflection and critical thinking in attaining true wisdom. He believed that knowledge gained through rote learning or memorization of facts was superficial and incomplete.
May 24, 2014 · Catalogue des peintures et sculptures exposées dans les galeries du Musée Fabre de la ville de Montpellier, 1904, 559. Notice des tableaux et autres objets d'art exposés au Musée Fabre de Montpellier, 1830, 327b.
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Regnault was also greatly influenced by his contemporary rival, and the most prominent Neoclassical painter of the age, Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825). In this painting, the great philosopher Socrates forcibly tries to tear the young man out of the embrace of a personified Sensuality (sometimes identified as the legendary courtesan Aspasia).
