This tapestry, depicting the continent of Asia,  is part of a four tapestry series commissioned by the French king Louis XVI that portrayed four different continents. Each tapestry uses iconography to portray the continents of Asia, Africa, Europe, and America. The tapestry series shows how Europe viewed the other parts of the world, based on the iconography used to depict each one. The tapestries were meant to show France as a center of the world as well as a global, cultural nation. In addition, the tapestries also portrayed the vast global trading market and the variety of goods each continent could provide. In this tapestry of Asia, you can see tea, pearls, silk, and other exotic luxury items. This tapestry series demonstrates the different trade relations Europe had with other parts of the world and its clear that the Europeans valued the variety of goods that they could obtain through trade. 

This painting by Jacques- Louis David is called The Death of Socrates. It was painted in 1787, two years before the French Revolution. It reflects the theme of Revolutionary Heroes and National Uprisings. Socrates is self-sacrificing by standing up to authority. He sits dignified and refuses to waver in his beliefs even though it could save his life. He chooses death instead of following power and renouncing his beliefs. During the period of Enlightenment, people were finally beginning to form their own thoughts instead of following the monarchy or church without second thought. However, the painting shows how thinking for yourself in dangerous, an idea that an Enlightenment writer Immanuel Kant introduced. Here, the danger of thinking for yourself in obvious as Socrates courageously faces death because of his beliefs.