MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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Question
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Napoleon
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Jacques Louis David
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Maximilien Robespierre
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Olympe de Gouges
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Clemens von Metternich
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Detailed explanation-1: -David won wide acclaim with his huge canvases on classical themes (e.g., Oath of the Horatii, 1784). When the French Revolution began in 1789, he served briefly as its artistic director and painted its leaders and martyrs (The Death of Marat, 1793) in a style that is more realistic than classical.
Detailed explanation-2: -“The French Revolution gave an enormous impulse to the painting of heroic subjects, ” Gombrich writes. “The leading artist of this neo-classical style was the painter Jacques-Louis David (1748 – 1825), who was the ‘official artist’ of the Revolutionary Government.
Detailed explanation-3: -He was a leader of the French Revolution, a prominent member of the radical Jacobin party, and a close friend of leader (and infamous tyrant) Maximilien Robespierre. He organized over-the-top propaganda festivals for France’s new republic. He even did jail time for his role in the Reign of Terror.
Detailed explanation-4: -The art of Jacques Louis David embodies the style known as Neoclassicism, which flourished in France during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.