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The Death of Socrates (French: La Mort de Socrate) is an oil on canvas painted by French painter Jacques-Louis David in 1787. The painting was part of the neoclassical style, popular in the 1780s, that depicted subjects from the Classical age, in this case the story of the execution of Socrates as told by Plato in his Phaedo. [1]
Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Socrates, 1787. Socrates concluded that “a man, who is one of the god’s possessions, should not kill himself ‘until the god sends some compulsion upon him, as he sends compulsion on us at present'”. [6] He thus saw one who died by suicide as condemnable, even though he did so himself.
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The Death of Socrates, by Jacques-Louis David (1787). Socrates was visited by friends in his last night in prison. His discussion with them gave rise to Plato's Crito and Phaedo. [68] Socrates was given the chance to offer alternative punishments for himself after being found guilty.
The painting was very much in tune with the political climate at the time. For this painting, David was not honored by a royal "works of encouragement". The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons (1789) For his next painting, David created The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons. The work had tremendous appeal for the time.