Story Behind the Picture
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Story Behind the Picture: The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David’s The Death of Socrates belongs to a genre of paintings of the Greek philosophers that seek to represent not only the philosopher but also something about their […]
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Story Behind the Picture: Maria von Herbert
(Türkçesi) This is a picture of Maria von Herbert (1770-1803), an Austrian woman, whose letter correspondence with Kant arguably poses a serious challenge to Kantian ethics. Maria von Herbert’s brother […]
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Story Behind the Picture: Sartre, Beauvoir & Steinberg
(Türkçesi) In the summer of 1946, Jean-Paul Sartre was 41 and becoming famous. At the time the photo was taken, he had just come back from and existentialism tour of […]
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