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Plato
Louise Lawler
2002
The bust of Plato, in a niche
Lucas Vorsterman I
ca. 1620
The bust of Plato, in a niche
Lucas Vorsterman I
ca. 1620
The Trial and Death of Socrates
Plato
1923
Libro devoto de la beata Catherina Bolognese
Girolamo Plato Benedetti
July 15, 1511
Study of Two Heads
Peter Paul Rubens
ca. 1609
Frontal Plate from a Shaffron (Horse's Head Defense)
Tibetan
16th–17th century
Marble head of a Greek general
Roman
1st–2nd century CE
The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David
1787
The Academy of Plato
Salvator Rosa
1662
Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)
Lydos
ca. 550 BCE
"Alexander Visits the Sage Plato in his Mountain Cave", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi
Amir Khusrau Dihlavi
1597–98
Celestial globe with clockwork
Gerhard Emmoser
1579
Casket with Warriors and Dancers
Byzantine
11th century
Rothschild lamp
Andrea Briosco, called Riccio
ca. 1510–20
Plato's Veil
Salle Werner Vaughn
1981
Seated Old Man (Plato) with a Young Man Standing Behind
Jacques Louis David
ca. 1786–87
Diogenes, seated before his barrel, reading from a book, a plucked hen standing behind him at right
Ugo da Carpi
ca. 1527–30
Zeno
British, Etruria, Staffordshire
ca. 1775
Plate 46: Cupid Shooting His Arrow at Plato (Plutonis animum amore Proserpinae inflammat Cupido), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'
Antonio Tempesta
1606
Plato's symposium: Socrates and his companions seated around a table discussing ideal love interruputed by Acibiades at left
Pietro Testa
1648
Plato's symposium: Socrates and his companions seated around a table discussing ideal love interruputed by Acibiades at left
Pietro Testa
1648
Plato's symposium: Socrates and his companions seated around a table discussing ideal love interruputed by Acibiades at left
Pietro Testa
1648
Plato's symposium: Socrates and his companions seated around a table discussing ideal love interruputed by Acibiades at left
Pietro Testa
1648
Puppet Drawing
William Kentridge
2000
Puppet Drawing
William Kentridge
2000
Design for mausoleum window
Louis C. Tiffany
late 19th–early 20th century
Medal: Self-portrait
Alfonso Ruspagiari
model ca. 1566 or 1571 (cast 18th or 19th century)
"Armadillo"
Alexander McQueen
spring/summer 2010
The Relation of the Individual to the State: Socrates and His Friends Discuss "The Republic," as in Plato's Account; Color Study for Mural, Supreme Court Room, Saint Paul, Minnesota State Capitol, Saint Paul
John La Farge
1903
"Armadillo" Shoes
Alexander McQueen
spring/summer 2010
Plate with gods shooting blowguns
Maya
7th–9th century
In Honor of Gustave Adolphe Hirn, Physicist (1815–1890)
Louis-Oscar Roty
1889
In Honor of Gustave Adolphe Hirn, Physicist (1815–1890)
Louis-Oscar Roty
1889
Head of a Bearded Elder
Augustin Pajou
1768
Alcibiades Interrupting the Symposium (recto); Sketches of the Baptism of Christ and of a Man (verso)
Peter Paul Rubens
ca. 1601–02 (recto); ca. 1601 (verso)
The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David
ca. 1786
Dialectics, from The Seven Liberal Arts, plate 2
1544
Plate with dancing Maize God
Maya
7th–9th century
Plato, from a series of antique busts
Lucas Vorsterman I
1638 or earlier