With The Death of Socrates, he brought politics into painting, shook up the art scene, and won major admirers ahead of the French Revolution. 1. THE DEATH OF SOCRATES DEPICTED A REAL AND TRULY ...

In this most classic of philosophical tales, Socrates dies a death that has been the subject of so much speculation and controversy that it has been fairly difficult over the years to determine ...

But was he real? The Death of Socrates (1787). Oil on canvas, 129.5 × 196.2 cm (51.0 × 77.2 in). Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons) Socrates was one of the ...

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

A worker cleans the 1935 statue of Socrates by Robert Aitken at the National Archives in 2017. (Bill O’Leary) In 1985, two days shy of his 12th birthday, Roosevelt Montás came from the ...

LaBarge says that it’s unlikely that Meletus was trying to have Socrates put to death. “It’s quite possible that he just wanted him exiled but he didn’t realize what type of person that Socrates was,” ...

As the hour drew near, everyone in the room broke down and wept except for Socrates himself, who continued to treat the affair as if it were nothing at all, at one point turning to them and saying ...