THE DEATH OF

SOCRATES
BY: JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID
HISTORICAL CONTENT
× ARTIST: JACQUES-LOUIS
DAVID, FRENCH, 1748–1825

× DATE: 1787

× MEDIUM: OIL ON CANVAS

× DIMENSIONS: 51 X 77 1/4 IN.
(129.5 X 196.2 CM)

× LOCATION: METROPOLITAN
MUSEUM OF ART, NEW
YORK
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CHARACTER
REPRESENTATION

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PLATO Apollodorus of Phaleron

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SOCRATES'S WIFE GRITO
XANTHIPPE

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Life of the
Painter
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JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID
NAME: JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID
OCCUPATION: PAINTER
BIRTH DATE: AUGUST 30, 1748 PARIS, FRANCE
DEATH DATE: DECEMBER 29, 1825 BRUSSELS,
BELGIUM
EDUCATION: COLLÈGE DES QUATRE-NATIONS,
ACADÉMIE ROYALE (ROYAL ACADEMY OF
PAINTING AND SCULPTURE)
NICKNAME: "FATHER OF THE WHOLE MODERN
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 JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID
 His father was killed in a duel in when David was
9 years old, and the boy was subsequently left
by his mother to be raised by two uncles.

 When David showed an interest in painting, his

uncles sent him to François Boucher, a leading
painter of the time and family friend.

 By age 18, the gifted young artist was enrolled at the Académie Royale
(Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture).

 After several failures in competitions and finding more discouragement

than support, during a period that included a suicide attempt (apparently
by avoiding food), in 1774, he finally obtained the Prix de Rome, a
government scholarship that ensured well-paid commissions in France.

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JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID
 The scholarship was a trip to Italy, and in 1775,
he and Vien went to Rome together, where
David studied Italian masterpieces and the ruins
of ancient Rome.
 Before he left Paris, he proclaimed, "The art of
antiquity will not seduce me, for it lacks
liveliness,"

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 SOME OF JACQUES-
LOUIS DAVID WORKS
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The Death of Marat Napoleon Crossing the Alps

Oath of the Horatii

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 The Intervention of the Sabine Women

Love And Psyche

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Secrets Behind

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