Tag: Greece

Arcadie (1860)

Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Arcadie/Idylle: Famille de l’Antiquité (Arcadia/Idyll: Family from Antiquity) 1860 Oil on canvas, 61.3 x 51.1 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Bouguereau, one of the most successful painters of the nineteenth century, was particularly admired in the United States. He…

La mort de Socrate (1787)

David, Jacques-Louis (1748-1825) La mort de Socrate (The Death of Socrates) 1787 Oil on canvas, 129.5 x 196.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In this landmark of Neoclassical painting from the years immediately preceding the French Revolution, David took up…

Socrates

(469 BC-399 BC) Σωκράτης Socrates in Art: David, Jacques-Louis (1748-1825) La mort de Socrate 1787 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York     David, Jacques-Louis (1748-1825) & Studio La mort de Socrate after 1787 Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton    

Jacques Damala

(1855–1889) Aristides Damalas Aριστεíδης Δαμαλάς Jacques Damala in Art: Bernhardt, Sarah (1844-1923) Portrait funéraire de Jacques Damala c.1889 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York   Born January 15 1855 Piraeus (Greece) Died August 18 1889 Paris (France) Cause of death Drug overdose…

Villa sul mare (1929)

De Chirico, Giorgio (1888-1978) Villa sul mare (Villa by the Sea) 1929 Color lithograph, 32.7 x 41.28 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis

Alcaeus

(c.620 BC-c.580 BC) Ἀλκαῖος ὁ Μυτιληναῖος Alcaeus of Mytilene Alcaeus in Art: Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (1836-1912) Sappho and Alcaeus 1881 Walters Art Museum, Baltimore     See also: • Poets | Writers