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"During a period of social, political, and cultural upheaval and transformations in France - from the late Enlightenment to the early nineteenth century, Jacques-Louis David emerged as the artistic leader of his epoch." "The current volume, which covers the artist's entire career from his student days in Paris and Rome to his final years of exile in Brussels, brings to light new evidence concerning the artist, his legacy, and the culture in which...
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"It is very rare to find artists who have played real political roles. This is, however, true of David (1748-1825), who lived through the most eventful period in all French history, from the Ancien Régime to the restoration. He was a deputy to the Convention, voted for the death of the King, became a member of the Comité de Sû̂reté Générale and for a time inspired the cultural policy of the country." -- Book jacket.
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"This program follows David's career from his early ambitions as a Prix de Rome scholar to the actions that defined him, morally and artistically, during the reigns of Robespierre and Napoleon. With the Death of Marat as its centerpriece, the program studies The Portrait of Monsieur Lavoisier and His Wife, The Oath of the Horatii, The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons, a self-portrait painted in prison, and other works."--Container.
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Jean-Louis David became fascinated with the founding of Rome while incarcerated and created a series of drawings. He completed The Sabines in 1799, which depicted Hersilia rushing between Titus and Romulus. The painting incorporates his passion for Ancient Rome as a political allegory about the French Revolution.
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Jacques-Louis David was a revolutionary artist in every sense. He was also fully committed supporter of the French Revolution and Napoleon using his art as a powerful instrument of political propaganda. As the originator of a hard-edged form of neoclassicism, he gave contemporary life something of the grandeur of ancient Rome or Greece. But his involvement in politics at one point almost cost him his life, and in the end forced him into exile. In...
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"From Drawing to Painting offers a unique perspective by interweaving biographical information about five renowned French artists - Nicolas Poussin, Antoine Watteau, Jean-Honore Fragonard, Jacques-Louis David, and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres - with a look at dozens of their drawings and the links that they have to their paintings. Presenting over 250 illustrations, this book explores drawing as a site of reflection, the space between the idea of...
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