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# A Brief History of Beards in Art
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/a-brief-history-of-beards-in-art/
- Published: 2016-05-19T11:00:23.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:47:35.000Z
- Description: Really smart guys like Socrates were immortalized in art.
- Author: Steven Weinberg
- Tags: Comics, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:17 (2016, 2017, part 1)

![brief-history-of-beards](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2016/05/brief-history-of-beards.jpg)