Greece Gallery

The Death of Socrates, 1787 (oil on canvas)

XOS1127648 The Death of Socrates, 1787 (oil on canvas) by David, Jacques Louis (1748-1825); 129.5x196 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; (add.info.: Socrates (c.469-399 BC), Classical Greek philosopher who drank poison instead of fleeing Athens and saving his life;); French, out of copyright

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Battenberg children

The four children of Prince Louis of Battenberg, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven and Princess Victoria of Hesse. Clockwise from left: Princess Louise, later Lady Louise Mountbatten (1889-1965), later Queen of Sweden, Prince George, later George Mountbatten (1892-1938), 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven, Princess Alice, later Princess Andrew of Greece (1885-1969), mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and Prince Louis, later Lord Louis Mountbatten (1900-1979). Date: c.1907

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St Pauls Bay

A lookout point over Saint Pauls Bay overs a fantastic view of the bay and the Lindos acropolis. The citadel was fortified successively by the Greeks, the Romans, the Byzantines, the Knights of St John and the Ottomans

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