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by Jacques-Louis David. Arlette Calvet. OF ALL THE WORKS of David the Louvre's Oath of the Horatii (Fig. I)1 is without doubt one of the best.
Jacques-Louis David's “Marat” / edited by William Vaughan Helen. Weston. p. cm. – (Masterpieces of Western painting). Includes bibliographical references
Paul Getty Museum (87.PA.27). Frontispiece: Jacques-Louis David. Self-Portrait 1794. Oil on canvas
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Jacques-Louis David was a painter of great renown as his style of history painting helped end the frivolity of the Rococo period, moving art back to the realm of classical austerity. One of David's most famous works, "The Death of Marat" (1793), portrays the famous French Revolutionary figure dead in his bath after an assassination.
David was born on August 30, 1748, in Paris, France. His father was killed in a duel in when David was 9 years old, and the boy was subsequently left by his mother to be raised by two uncles. When David showed an interest in painting, his uncles sent him to François Boucher, a leading painter of the time and family friend. Boucher was a Rococo pain...
That same year, David returned to Rome to complete "Oath of the Horatii," whose austere visual treatment — somber color, frieze-like composition and clear lighting — was a sharp departure from the prevailing Rococo style of the time. Exhibited in the official Paris Salon of 1785, the painting created a sensation and was regarded as a declaration of...
In the early years of the Revolution, David was a member of the extremist Jacobin group led by Maximilien de Robespierre, and he became an active, politically committed artist involved in a good deal of revolutionary propaganda. He produced such works as "Joseph Bara", the sketched "Oath of the Tennis Court" and "Death of Lepeletier de Saint-Fargea...
By 1794, Robespierre and his revolutionary allies had gone too far in silencing counter-revolutionary voices, and the people of France began to question his authority. In July of that year, it came to a head, and Robespierre was sent to the guillotine. David was arrested, remaining in prison until the amnesty of 1795. Upon release, David devoted hi...
They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. Jacques-Louis David, (born August 30, 1748, Paris, France—died December 29, 1825, Brussels, Belgium), the most celebrated French artist of his day and a principal exponent of the late 18th-century Neoclassical reaction against the Rococo style.
The art of Jacques Louis David embodies the style known as Neoclassicism, which flourished in France during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
His heart, meanwhile, was buried at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. Best Known For: Jacques-Louis David was a 19th-century painter who is considered to be the principal proponent of the Neoclassical style.
David championed a style of rigorous contours, sculpted forms, and polished surfaces; history paintings, such as his Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of His Sons (Musée du Louvre, Paris) of 1789, were intended as moral exemplars.