Of the French artist Jacques Louis David and the subject of the painting is about the story of Socrates and the last moments of his life when the government sentenced him to choose between death by poison or exile as punishment for the lessons he was giving and incites the contempt of the gods and refused Socrates exile and chose death by name and appears Socrates in the painting is coherent He extends his hands to the drink in which he is poison and he does not stop talking to his students who surround him sad for the fate of their professor. The painting shows the pupil of Socrates Plato. In the far corner, the wife of Socrates appears outside of the prison and Plato is sitting on the back of the bed while Creto holds his pupil with Socrates' foot. Socrates was a great philosopher and he was the first to call for the superiority of reason over ignorance and superstition.