Artist Unknown Greek Philosopher Socrates Alabaster Bust Head Statue Sculpture Décor 5.9 inches

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A. H. Smith, A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Vol. I (London 1892), 288-9, no. 549; We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. The bust was dressed on the set of Gladiator as it bore a striking resemblance to Richard Harris playing Marcus Aurelius.

Brun, Jean (1978). Socrate (in French) (6thed.). Presses universitaires de France. pp.39–40. ISBN 978-2-13-035620-2. A park in the neighborhood was once a port for sand and stone. It was a landfill and dumping ground until local sculptor Mark di Suvero turned it into a public park in 1985. It was opened to the public a year later. Today, it is one of the largest outdoor spaces in New York City devoted to sculpture. The statue has remained a landmark of Long Island City for over a century, and its location in the park is a popular destination for tourists. In ancient art, double herms were a common statue type. While in Greece they were displayed in public rooms, in the Roman empire they were shown in private spaces. [ citation needed] Thus, the combination of the two philosophers here owed something to the personal inclinations of the person who commissioned it, even if it is not clear why these two philosophers were linked in particular. Probably it has to do with the fact that they were both forced to commit suicide. The presentation of philosophers (and poets) as double herms was the most common use of this genre. This parallel presentation is also seen in literature, for example in the Parallel Lives of Plutarch. Shortly after Plato died, Aristotle left Athens and, at the request of Philip II of Macedon, tutored Alexander the Great beginning in 343 BC.

He also believed that how humans tend to remember things that they have had no experience of in their lifetimes — referred to as the principle of recollection — proves this hypothesis.

T. Potts, Civilization: Ancient Treasures from the British Museum (Exhibition Catalogue, Canberra/Melbourne, 1990), 144-5, no. 70; Gisela Richter, The Portraits of the Greeks, vol. I (London: Phaidon Press, 1965), 113 no. 13, figs. 513, 516 The owner of the bust, Mark Farley, who gave me a private tour of his jaw-dropping film and TV prop house Farley’s recently, gave me some low down on this striking antique. It is in fact a late 17th Century Italian piece, Heroic (size) white marble and porphyry bust of a philosopher with gilt bronze robes. I enjoyed meeting the Gladiator bust in person – which sits loud and proud in Farley’s – suppliers of fine antique furniture, art and action props to the theatre, television and film industries Items in the Cornell Cast Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes. Metadata may not be complete in all cases. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers Book II, Chapter 5, Section 19". Archived from the original on 24 January 2022 . Retrieved 24 January 2022.In other words, he sought the absolute and rejected the relative; he studied the essence of morality and disregarded what he saw as more superficial moral issues.