La Mort de Socrate

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La Mort de Socrate is the original French title of Jacques-Louis David’s famous 1787 Neoclassical painting depicting the philosopher Socrates calmly accepting his death by hemlock.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Neoclassical painting
painting
artForm oil painting
artHistoricalSignificance canonical representation of Socrates in Western art
key work of early Neoclassical history painting
artMovementContext Neoclassicism
surface form: "French Neoclassicism"
collection Metropolitan Museum of Art
surface form: "The Metropolitan Museum of Art"
colorPalette restrained palette with strong chiaroscuro
countryOfOrigin France
creator Jacques-Louis David
creatorNationality French
depicts Athenian prison cell
Crito
Plato
Socrates
cup of hemlock
death of Socrates
disciples of Socrates
hemlock poisoning of Socrates
depictsEvent execution of Socrates
depictsPhilosophicalConcept duty to the laws of the city
immortality of the soul
depictsTimePeriod Classical Athens
genre history painting
hasPart central figure of Socrates seated on a bed
elderly Plato seated at the foot of the bed
figure handing Socrates the cup of hemlock
mourning disciples surrounding Socrates
inception 1787
inspiredBy Apology of Socrates
Phaedo
Socratic dialogues of Plato
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity New York City
surface form: "New York"

New York City
United States of America
surface form: "United States"
location Metropolitan Museum of Art
surface form: "The Metropolitan Museum of Art"
mainSubject philosophical martyrdom
stoic acceptance of death
virtue
materialUsed canvas
oil paint
movement Neoclassicism
originalLanguageTitle La Mort de Socrate
painter Jacques-Louis David
title La Mort de Socrate
La Mort de Socrate
surface form: "The Death of Socrates"

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Jacques-Louis David notableWork La Mort de Socrate
this entity surface form: "The Death of Socrates"
Jacques-Louis David notableWork La Mort de Socrate
this entity surface form: "The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons"
La Mort de Socrate originalLanguageTitle La Mort de Socrate
subject surface form: "The Death of Socrates"
La Mort de Socrate title La Mort de Socrate
La Mort de Socrate title La Mort de Socrate
this entity surface form: "The Death of Socrates"

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