Artist a day!
JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID (1748-1825)
Jacques-Louis David was a French artist who is best known for his dramatic, detailed paintings and historic, mythological scenes.
Jacques-Louis David is considered the main advocate of Neoclassical painters. His most famous pieces are 'The Death of Marat' And 'Napoleon Crossing the Alps'.
– Oath of the Horatii, 1784-1785. ...
– Death of Marat, 1793.
– Napoleon Crossing the Saint-Bernard.
Notable Work
– Le Premier consul franchissant les Alpes au col du Grand-Saint-Bernard (Napoleon Crossing the Alps)
– The Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon and the Coronation of Empress Joséphine on December 2, 1804.
"The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the canvas the sublime lessons of philosophy, are so many proofs that an artistic genius should have no other guide except the torch of reason."