David marat biography
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Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) was the best-known painter of historical scenes of his generation. He was a strong supporter of the French Republic and effectively became its official artist. His painting, The Death of Marat, is one of the great propagandist images of the French Revolution.
Jean-Paul Marat (1743 –1793) was best known for his role as a radical journalist and politician during the French Revolution. He was passionate about the rights of the poorer classes and they, in turn, regarded him as a hero. But Marat’s uncompromising and often violent views also led him to have many enemies. One of these was Charlotte Corday, a supporter of the Girondin political group. On 13 July 1793, Charlotte tricked Marat into allowing her into his apartment. Charlotte stabbed Marat to death in his bath (which he would lie in for hours to r
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The Death of Marat
1793 painting by Jacques-Louis David
The Death of Marat (French: La Mort de Marat or Marat Assassiné) is a 1793 painting by Jacques-Louis David depicting the artist's friend and murdered French revolutionary leader, Jean-Paul Marat.[1] One of the most famous images from the era of the French Revolution, it was painted when David was the leading French Neoclassical painter, a Montagnard, and a member of the revolutionary Committee of General Security. Created in the months after Marat's death, the painting shows Marat lying dead in his bath after his assassination by Charlotte Corday on 13 July 1793.[2]
In 2001, art historian T. J. Clark called David's painting the first modernist work for "the way it took the stuff of politics as its material, and did not transmute it".[3]
The painting is in the collection of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium. A replica, created by the artist's studio, is on display at the Louvre.
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Jacques-Louis David
French painter and designer of the Flag of France (1748–1825)
Jacques-Louis David (French:[ʒaklwidavid]; 30 August 1748 – 29 månad 1825) was a French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s, his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward classical austerity, severity, and heightened feeling,[1] which harmonized with the moral climate of the sista years of the Ancien Régime.
David later became an active supporter of the French Revolution and friend of Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794), and was effectively a dictator of the arts beneath the French Republic. Imprisoned after Robespierre's fall from power, he aligned han själv with yet another political regime upon his release: that of Napoleon, the First Consul of France. At this time he developed his Empire style, notable for its use of warm Venetian colours. After Napoleon's fall