Jacques Louis David’s, Death of Socrates, embodies both the neoclassical movement and the ideals of the French Revolution. Socrates, a harsh critic of the Athenian government was sentenced to death, a death Socrates used to model stoic strength to his students.
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00:00 - Introduction
00:17 - Who is Jacques Louis David
02:21 - Neoclassicism
04:36 - Socrates, the Legend
06:54 - The Background to David's Death of Socrates
07:48 - The Salon -1787
10:36 - Close Reading of the Death of Socrates
10:54 - Socrates
13:14 - Two Gestures
14:09 - Hand hovering over the cup
14:58 - The Guard
16:24 - Wife and Apollodorus
16:57 - Crito in David’s Death of Socrates
17:46 - 3 figures on the right
18:50 - Plato
20:37 - Concluding Thoughts
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