Conjuring the Dead
Jacques-Louis David, Artist of the Time to Come
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2178-0447.ars.2020.161952Keywords:
Jacques-Louis David, Rome, French Revolution, PaintingAbstract
Following the paradigms of the historical painting form, David uses the acts of Classical Antiquity not only as a moral orientation, but as a political position and practical guiding in the then emerging revolution in France. The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons (1789 ) is an example of the republican feature par excellence and, therefore, of revolutionary action in the monarchy’s context. After the Revolution, David painted The Death of Marat (1793), a work in which, using the form of historical painting, portrays a character and a theme of contemporary history. Finally, France, now republican, was worthy of representation in a historical painting.
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