Jacques-Louis David

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Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825) was a French painter and leading exponent of Neoclassicism, active during the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era.

Born in Paris in 1748 and died in 1825. David was influential in late 18th- and early 19th-century French painting, produced major works such as Le serment des Horaces (The Oath of the Horatii) and La Mort de Marat (The Death of Marat), and served as an important painter during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods.

Three DeBaser reviews analyze David's major revolutionary and neoclassical works. Commentary focuses on composition, emotional contrasts and political meaning. Reviewers highlight David's clarity, theatrical staging and his role in revolutionary iconography.

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Jacques-Louis David, a neoclassical artist and, subsequently, official painter of Napoleon, inspired by "Horace", a tragedy by the French playwright Pierre Corneille, very trendy at the time, decided to bring to canvas an episode that would prove fundamental to connect the first to the second act of the play. The Oath of the Horatii.
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"The Death of Marat," oil on canvas from 1793 housed at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Brussels, was created by David after an artistic period that saw him, thanks to a trip to Italy, especially Rome and Naples, abandon the then gasping Rococo to embrace a new style which, in the years to follow, was labeled as Neoclassical
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You struck me without me being able to see you! Without me being able to react! Not even the courage to relish your infamous deed! Run! Coward…
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