The Death of Socrates
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| + | '''''The Death of Socrates''''' is a [[1787]] painting by the French painter [[Jacques-Louis David]], first presented at the [[Paris Salon of 1787]]. | ||
| - | ''[[The Death of Marat]]'' {{·}} ''[[Portrait of Count Stanislas Potocki]]'' {{·}} ''[[Oath of the Horatii]]'' {{·}} ''[[The Death of Socrates]]'' {{·}} ''[[The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons]]'' {{·}} ''[[The Intervention of the Sabine Women]]'' {{·}} ''[[Napoleon Crossing the Alps|Napoleon at the Saint-Bernard Pass]]'' {{·}} ''[[The Coronation of Napoleon]]'' {{·}} ''[[Belisarius Begging for Alms]]'' {{·}} ''[[Portrait of Madame Récamier]]'' {{·}} ''[[Portrait of Pope Pius VII]]'' {{·}} ''[[Leonidas at Thermopylae]]'' {{·}} ''[[The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries|Napoleon in His Study]]'' {{·}} ''[[Portrait of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and his wife]]'' {{·}} ''[[Mars Being Disarmed by Venus]]'' | + | It represents the scene of the death of Greek philosopher [[Socrates]], condemned to die by drinking [[conium|hemlock]], for the expression of his ideas against those of Athens' and corrupting the minds of the youth. The painting also depicts both [[Plato]] and [[Crito of Alopece|Crito]], with the former sitting ruefully at the edge of the bed and the latter clutching the knee of Socrates. Socrates had the choice to go into exile (and hence give up his philosophic vocation) or be sentenced to death by drinking [[hemlock]]. Socrates chose death. In this painting, a red-robed disciple hands a confident Socrates the goblet of hemlock. Socrates' hand pointing to the heavens indicating his defiance of the gods and fearless attitude to his death. |
| - | <hr> | + | This painting is currently on display at the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] in [[New York]] as one of Jacques-Louis David's greatest pieces of art. |
| - | *[[RIP Garry Shider]], 56, [[United States|American]] [[musician]] ([[Parliament-Funkadelic]]), complications from [[brain cancer|brain]] and [[lung cancer]]. See [[Deaths in 2010]]. | + | ==See also== |
| + | *[[Trial of Socrates]] | ||
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The Death of Socrates is a 1787 painting by the French painter Jacques-Louis David, first presented at the Paris Salon of 1787.
It represents the scene of the death of Greek philosopher Socrates, condemned to die by drinking hemlock, for the expression of his ideas against those of Athens' and corrupting the minds of the youth. The painting also depicts both Plato and Crito, with the former sitting ruefully at the edge of the bed and the latter clutching the knee of Socrates. Socrates had the choice to go into exile (and hence give up his philosophic vocation) or be sentenced to death by drinking hemlock. Socrates chose death. In this painting, a red-robed disciple hands a confident Socrates the goblet of hemlock. Socrates' hand pointing to the heavens indicating his defiance of the gods and fearless attitude to his death.
This painting is currently on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York as one of Jacques-Louis David's greatest pieces of art.
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