"The Death of Socrates" (1787) is a painting by French artist Jacques-Louis David.
The Death of Socrates
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Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David (30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was a highly influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward a classical...