Artist: Jacques-Louis David - Title: The Death of Socrates - Medium: Fine Art Reproduction Giclee on Canvas - Image Size: Approximately 13.25 inches x 20 inches - Unframed on Unstretched Canvas - Biography: Jacques-Louis David (30 August 1748 - 29 December 1825) was a French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward classical austerity and severity and heightened feeling,harmonizing with the moral climate of the final years of the Ancien Regime.

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