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FEUERBACH, Anselm Friedrich: Platonic Banquet

🖼 Platonic Banquet, 1873
Oil on canvas
400 × 750 cm
Berlin, Germany

Draped figures recline around a table in classical arrangement, rendered with academic precision and warm, honeyed light. Feuerbach revives Plato's symposium as idealized allegory, merging philosophical discourse with sensuous beauty—a manifesto for German Idealism's aesthetic vision.

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