Socrates natural marble Size: H-29cm W-20cm D-14cm

Size:  H-29cm W-20cm D-14cm

was excavated at Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli near Rome in 1791

and Another by Hubert Le Sueur

He received his early training in the studio of the Flemish sculptor Jacques Dubroeucq

once buried in rubble

Socrates natural marble Size: H-29cm W-20cm D-14cmSocrates, a marble bust, 17th century, italy. A fine antique marble bust of Socrates, once owned by Baroness Westonholz and later sold to Tyringham Hall, Buckinghamshire. Artist and studio unknown. Socrates was a classical Greek (Athenian) philosopher. Credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, he is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of later classical writers, especially the writings of his students Plato and Xenophon