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Who was Jean-Paul Marat?
At its centre is the blood of one of the most significant figures of the French Revolution, Jean-Paul Marat. During the 1780s, Marat’s searing pro-Revolution journalism and his paper, The People’s Friend, earned him the passionate support of poor Parisians—and plenty of pro-monarchy enemies.
Why did David paint a memorial to Jean Marat?
At the height of the Reign of Terror in 1793, David painted a memorial to his great friend, the murdered publisher, Jean Marat. As in his Death of Socrates, David substitutes the iconography (symbolic forms) of Christian art for more contemporary issues.
What happened to Marat in 1793?
On July 13, 1793, the revolutionary was in the bath annotating newspapers when royalist sympathiser Charlotte Corday burst in and stabbed him to death in the chest with a kitchen knife. Marat bled out within seconds.
What was Marat's physical appearance?
Marat’s physical appearance was as polarising as his radical political positions. He wore distinctive clothing—think dramatic robes, head scarfs and open shirts, which he adopted from working-class Parisians—and he had a visible skin disease.