This podcast discusses the career of Jacques-Louis David, a painter who shifted his artistic allegiances from a king to a revolution against that king to an emperor.  Was the artist a man without principles or was he a man of his own time, caught up in the tides of history, taking opportunity as he found it?  The major works of art by David will be discussed.

Tags: Death of Marat, Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun, French Revolution, Jacques Louis David, King Louis XVI, Napoléon, Napoleonic Art, Oath of the Horatti, Robespierre

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