Bust of Socrates

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This plaster bust is a copy of an original sculpture (perhaps in The British Museum?) created in Italy ca. 1816. Socrates (c. 470 – 399 BC) was a classical Greek (Athenian) philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher of the Western ethical tradition of thought. An enigmatic figure, he made no writings, and is known chiefly through the accounts of classical writers writing after his lifetime, particularly his students Plato and Xenophon. Other sources include the contemporaneous Antisthenes, Aristippus, and Aeschines of Sphettos. Aristophanes, a playwright, is the main contemporary author to have written plays mentioning Socrates during Socrates' lifetime, though a fragment of Ion of Chios' Travel Journal provides important information about Socrates' youth.

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CrawfordArtGallery
Crawford Art Gallery is a National Cultural Institution located in Cork, Ireland. Dedicated to historic and contemporary visual art, the gallery is currently closed for redevelopment and reopens in 2027. The collection comprises more than 3,500 works, ranging from eighteenth-century Irish and European painting and sculpture, through to contemporary video installations. At the heart of the collection are the Canova Casts, a collection of Greek and Roman sculpture casts brought to Cork in 1818 from the Vatican Museums in Rome. Through its exhibitions and Learn & Explore programmes, Crawford Art Gallery is committed to fostering recognition, critical assessment, and acknowledgement of historical and contemporary Irish and international art practice. Charity Number: CHY 18818

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