Socrates
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The Death of Socrates
Painting · Jacques-Louis David
David's The Death of Socrates (1787) is a manifesto of Neoclassicism: the philosopher reaches for the hemlock mid-argument, still teaching as he dies.Crosses Neoclassicism × Painting × Socrates, an ar
Tristithea·6/27/2026
Socrates (Louvre Bust)
Sculpture (Roman marble copy after Greek original) · Anonymous (Roman copy, 1st century CE, after Greek 4th-century BCE original)
This Roman marble bust of Socrates held in the Louvre is one of the principal surviving portraits of the philosopher whose execution in 399 BCE has been treated as the founding martyrdom of Western ph
Tristithea·5/28/2026
