THE NEOCLASSICISM OF JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID
Jacques-Louis David, the most prominent Neoclassical painter, 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: " "Napoléon Crossing the Alps, " "The Coronation of the Emperor and the Empress, " "The Death of Socrates, " "The Distribution of Eagles at the Champ-de-Mars", " "The Sabine Women, " The Oath of the Horatti, "Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of his Sons, Death of Marat, Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun, French Revolution, Jacques Louis David, King Louis XVI, Napoléon, Napoleonic Art, Oath of the Horatti, Robespierre, Simon Sharma
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