The Symposium (After Plato)
Anselm Feuerbach · 1874
Why it's great
Guests recline at a dinner party in ancient Athens, taking turns to give speeches about love, in a scene from Plato's dialogue The Symposium. Anselm Feuerbach, who loved ancient Greece, made two versions of it and painted this second one in the early 1870s.
🏛️ Part of history
Classical Greece: From Marathon to Socrates (490–399 BC) — Guests recline at a dinner party in ancient Athens, taking turns to give speeches about love, in a scene from Plato's dialogue The Symposium.
Where to see it
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Anselm Feuerbach was a German painter born in Speyer in 1829. He studied in Düsseldorf, Munich and Paris and lived for many years in Italy, where he painted calm scenes from classical antiquity. He died in Venice in 1880.
