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The Death of Socrates
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- Painted in 1787 the picture, with its stoic theme, is perhaps David's most perfect Neoclassical statement. The printmaker and publisher John Boydell wrote to Sir Joshua Reynolds that it was "the greatest effort of art since the Sistine Chapel and the stanze of Raphael. . . . This work would have done honour to Athens at the time of Pericles." The subject is loosely based on Plato's "Phaedo," but in painting it David consulted a variety of sources, including Diderot's treatise on dramatic poetry of 1758 and works by the poet André Chenier.From Metropolitan Museum of Art website
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Style Period:
- Early Modern Western Europe and Iberia | France
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Culture:
- French
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Technique:
- painting, oil
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Materials:
- oil on canvas
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Repository Number:
- 31.45
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Classification:
- Art
- Painting
- Canvas paintings
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