Socrates Tearing Away Alcibiades from the Arms of Sensuality

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Socrates Tearing Away Alcibiades from the Arms of Sensuality is a Neoclassical history painting by Jean-Baptiste Regnault depicting the philosopher Socrates rescuing the young Alcibiades from the temptations of vice and sensual pleasure.

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instanceOf Neoclassical painting
history painting
painting
artisticSchool French Neoclassical school NERFINISHED
basedOn life of Alcibiades
life of Socrates
countryOfOrigin France
creator Jean-Baptiste Regnault NERFINISHED
depicts Alcibiades NERFINISHED
Sensuality
Socrates NERFINISHED
Vice
depictsCharacterRole Alcibiades as young disciple
Socrates as moral guide
genre allegorical painting
hasTheme education of youth
philosophical morality
virtue versus vice
languageOfTitle French
mainSubject moral virtue
philosophy
self-control
temptation
movement Neoclassicism
portrays struggle between reason and passion

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Jean-Baptiste Regnault notableWork Socrates Tearing Away Alcibiades from the Arms of Sensuality