The Debate of Socrates and Aspasia
The increasingly active role of women in European society is reflected indirectly in the themes of various works. Nicolas Andre´ Monsiau frequently treated the subject of a debate which Aspasia, Pericles’s second wife and an extremely clever and beautiful woman in Athens during the fifth century BC, had with the great philosopher Socrates in the presence of general Alcibiades.
1801
Oil on canvas
65.0 x 81.0cm
1248
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