Click-to-enlarge image can be found here (hence superseded by this different coloration, click-to-enlarge image found here), or at Mr. Melcher’s blog entry.The Death of Socrates (link shows Wikipedia page with a section on the painting) is shown, with a different coloration image, and described, by its current-location page (click image there for interactive enlargement; for more info, expand Catalogue Entry, and other topics below it).One of the other images there, is discussed here; couldn’t find a reference for the other (detail) image (of Crito). 3 detail images of this painting, here, here, and here, can be found on the alternate page.This provides a description of it, along with another different coloration image. This concentrates more on the artistic elements of the painting, as does this. It is also described here, along with a different coloration, click-to-enlarge image. A larger museum color, click-to-enlarge image, can be found here. Many different coloration, or detail images of it are available online.This description embeds a YouTube video about the painting; another YouTube video about it can be found here. The artist’s Wikipedia page and collection (many more under Subcategories at each level).Third, of the 6 works, by this artist/teacher, that have, so far, appeared in Mr. Melcher’s blog, to also appear here.
margueritem over 10 years ago
Wonder who wins?
watmiwori over 10 years ago
And just why should bloody Socrates always have all the fun???!!! Riddle me that!
tattooedcyberidiot over 10 years ago
Hemlock schmemlock! I tell ya, I can drink gallons of the stuff and still be right to drive
zero over 10 years ago
Detractors – take comfort in knowing it doesn’t end well…
pcolli over 10 years ago
Of course…..got to die happy (I mean clean). I expect it’s a nice rough sponge, too.
emjaycee over 10 years ago
Conversation between my ex-boss and his 15-year-old daughter about him always giving her ‘advice’:
Him: “Socrates was a wise man. He gave his friends advice.”Her: “Yeah, and they poisoned him.”
puddlesplatt over 10 years ago
put your arms down, your pits are stinking up the place!
J Short over 10 years ago
Letting the teacher know it’s a number 1.
finale over 10 years ago
OK, which one is Sophocles and which one is Testicles?
mabrndt Premium Member over 10 years ago
Click-to-enlarge image can be found here (hence superseded by this different coloration, click-to-enlarge image found here), or at Mr. Melcher’s blog entry.The Death of Socrates (link shows Wikipedia page with a section on the painting) is shown, with a different coloration image, and described, by its current-location page (click image there for interactive enlargement; for more info, expand Catalogue Entry, and other topics below it).One of the other images there, is discussed here; couldn’t find a reference for the other (detail) image (of Crito). 3 detail images of this painting, here, here, and here, can be found on the alternate page.This provides a description of it, along with another different coloration image. This concentrates more on the artistic elements of the painting, as does this. It is also described here, along with a different coloration, click-to-enlarge image. A larger museum color, click-to-enlarge image, can be found here. Many different coloration, or detail images of it are available online.This description embeds a YouTube video about the painting; another YouTube video about it can be found here. The artist’s Wikipedia page and collection (many more under Subcategories at each level).Third, of the 6 works, by this artist/teacher, that have, so far, appeared in Mr. Melcher’s blog, to also appear here.
Popeyesforearm over 10 years ago
Hey Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!
Call me Ishmael over 10 years ago
“Okay..on “three” I start chugging.. One.."….
mabrndt Premium Member over 10 years ago
Here is another work by this artist.