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TitleThe Death of Socrates

Creator namePeyron, Jean François Pierre

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1785–1787

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions38 9/16 × 52 1/2 in. (98 × 133.5 cm)

LocationStatens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMS7066

Accession numberKMS7066

SubjectsPainting, French--18th centuryHistory painting, FrenchDeathbedsNeoclassicism (Art)

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Chapter VII: David and the Salon

Thomas E. Crow

Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris

To judge from David’s planning for the Salon of 1783, the “modesty” discerned by the author of Mémoires secrets seems closer to the mark than does any desire to reach over the heads of his superiors to some radicalized public...

Author

Thomas E. Crow

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.211-254

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00329.8

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23039&redirecttoanchor=59978

Chapter subject tags:David, Jacques Louis, 1748-1825Art criticism--France--History--18th centuryFrance--History--Revolution, 1789-1799Neoclassicism (Art)--FranceArt, French--18th century--ExhibitionsHistory painting, French--18th century

4. The Eighteenth Century: The Politics of Art

Marcia B. Hall

The Power of Color: Five Centuries of European Painting

~~The eighteenth century sees the definitive politicization of art, which would ultimately come to play a role in the wrenching events of the French Revolution. Louis XIV’s takeover of the art establishment in the service of the state, beginning around 1660, laid the foundation for what followed. Crucial to Louis’s...

Author

Marcia B. Hall

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.145-185

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00228.005

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20828&redirecttoanchor=59978

Chapter subject tags:Painting--TechniqueArt--Political aspectsNeoclassicism (Art)--FrancePainting, French--18th centuryPainting, Rococo

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