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	Jacques-Louis David - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Napoleon had high esteem for David, and asked him to accompany him to Egypt in 1798, but David refused, claiming he was too old for adventuring and sending instead his student, Antoine-Louis Gros.
		The Count in charge of the appointments said David was too young, but said he would support Jacques in 6 to 12 years.
		David later became an active supporter of the French Revolution and friend of Maximilien de Robespierre, and was effectively a dictator of the arts under the French Republic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jacques_Louis_David (3821 words)

	MSN Encarta - Jacques Louis David
		David won the Prix de Rome in 1774, and on the ensuing trip to Italy he was strongly influenced by classical art and by the classically inspired work of Poussin.
		David was born into a prosperous middle-class family in Paris and studied at the Académie Royale under the painter Joseph-Marie Vien.
		Vien aroused in the young David an enthusiasm for classical antiquity and for the 17th-century French painter Nicolas Poussin, in opposition to the prevailing rococo style.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761569719/David_Jacques-Louis.html (516 words)

	JACQUES LOUIS DAVID - LoveToKnow Article on JACQUES LOUIS DAVID
		At this very time David returned to Paris; he was now painter to the king, Louis XVI., who had been the purchaser of his principal works, and his popularity was soon immense.
		At the outbreak of the Revolution in 1789, David was carried away by the flood of enthusiasm that made all the intellect of France believe in a new era of equality and emancipation from all the ills of life.
		Davids revolutionary ideas, which led to his election to the presidency of the Convention and to the committee of general security, inspired his pictures Last Moments of Lepelletier de Saint-Fargeau and Marat Assassinated.
	74.1911encyclopedia.org /D/DA/DAVID_JACQUES_LOUIS.htm (1010 words)

	David, Jacques-Louis. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		David emerged to become First Painter to the emperor and foremost recorder of Napoleonic events (e.g., Napoleon Crossing the Saint Bernard Pass, 1800; Coronation of Napoleon and Josephine, 1805–07; and The Distribution of the Eagles, 1810) and a sensitive portraitist (Mme Récamier, 1800; Louvre).
		David was admitted to the Académie royale in 1780 and worked as court painter to the king.
		David studied with Vien, and after winning the Prix de Rome (which had been refused him four times, causing him to attempt suicide by starvation) he accompanied Vien to Italy in 1775.
	www.bartleby.com /65/da/DavidJa.html (564 words)

	Madame Récamier by DAVID, Jacques-Louis
		This is a case where a comparison will give a good idea of how differently the same subject was handled by Jacques-Louis David and one of his numerous pupils.
		The Spartan severity of David's composition, the Neoclassical sparseness of the arrangement, the cool handling of the room, the distanced pose, with the lady turning her shoulder to the viewer, were all elements with which Neoclassicism had operated for long enough.
		In David's portrait, noble simplicity, expressed by the simple dress and the Spartan decoration, is also eloquent in the open face.
	www.wga.hu /html/d/david_j/4/401david.html (335 words)

	Jacques-Louis David. Biography. - Olga's Gallery
		He voted for the death of Louis XVI in 1793 and supported Robespierre’s and the left radicals’ regime; David was a member of the Committee of Public Safety and artistic director of the great national fêtes founded on classical customs.
		David died on 29 December 1825 and was buried at the Saint-Josse-ten-Noode cemetery, Brussels.
		David stayed in their country house after he was released from the Luxembourg prison at the end of December 1794.
	www.abcgallery.com /D/david/davidbio.html (1833 words)

	Jacques-Louis David
		Jacques Louis David was born in Paris and first studied with Francois Boucher, whose influence may be seen in his works until 1770.
		David was also active in the political side of the French Revolution where, from about 1787, he was the arbiter of taste and design in furniture, clothing, and the stage, as actors began to pose in groups similar to those in his paintings.
		David's art, embodying the ancient civic virtues, became the symbol of the Revolution and its aesthetic doctrines.
	www.3d-dali.com /Artist-Biographies/Jacques-Louis_David.html (498 words)

	The Death of Marat - Jacques-Louis David
		David's position was unchallenged as the painter of the Revolution, and he sought in his three paintings of `martyrs of the Revolution', to apply to these modern men the same universal tragedy to be found in his beloved antiquity.
		From the outset, David was in active sympathy with the Revolution, and =his majestic historical paintings (especially the Oath of the Horatii, Death of Socrates, and Brutus's Sons) were universally hailed as artistic demands for political action.
		David, Marat's colleague in the Convention, had visited him only the day before the murder, and he recalled the setting of the room vividlly, the tub, the sheet, the green rug, the wooden packing case, and above all, the pen of the journalist.
	www.bc.edu /bc_org/avp/cas/his/CoreArt/art/neocl_dav_marat.html (850 words)

	Jean-Paul Marat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Death of Marat is a famous painting by Jacques-Louis David.
		On the 21st January 1793, King Louis XVI was beheaded.
		Peter Weiss wrote a play titled The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat, as performed by the inmates of the Asylum of Charenton under the direction of the Marquis de Sade, also known as Marat/Sade.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jean-Paul_Marat (1681 words)

	Jacques-Louis David
		David was an artist rebelling against accepted standards and the Academicians made sure he knew it.
		In turn, David's reaction was contempt for the authorities of the Academy.
		David painted out or painted in what his political patrons wanted.
	www.lander.edu /jcleland/GNED301/jacques-louis_david.htm (1296 words)

	WebMuseum: David, Jacques-Louis
		David was in active sympathy with the Revolution, becoming a Deputy and voting for the execution of Louis XVI.
		David went to Italy with the latter in 1776, Vien having been appointed director of the French Academy at Rome, David having won the Prix de Rome.
		In Italy, David was able to indulge his bent for the antique and came into contact with the initiators of the new Classical revival, including Gavin Hamilton.
	www.ibiblio.org /wm/paint/auth/david (690 words)

	The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Works of Art: European Paintings
		David shows him calmly discoursing on the immortality of the soul with his grief-stricken disciples.
		This work would have done honour to Athens at the time of Pericles." The subject is loosely based on Plato's "Phaedo," but in painting it David consulted a variety of sources, including Diderot's treatise on dramatic poetry of 1758 and works by the poet André Chenier.
		The pose of the figure at the foot of the bed was reportedly inspired by a passage in a novel by the English writer Richardson.
	www.metmuseum.org /Works_of_Art/viewOne.asp?dep=11&viewMode=0&item=31.45 (200 words)

	David, Jacques-Louis
		This 1822 painting by French neoclassical painter Jacques& David (1748–1825) shows the French emperor Napoleon I and the empress Josephine being crowned in Notre Dame, Paris, France.
		David studied in Paris and then in Rome, drawing the Roman statues and familiarizing himself with the main figures of the Renaissance.
		After the death of the Jacobin leader Robespierre, David was twice imprisoned and narrowly escaped the guillotine.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0000803.html (460 words)

	Painter/Artist: Jacques Louis David (1748-1825)
		David is unique perhaps in the history of art for not only reflecting the spirit of his age, but for actually shaping that "spirit" through his own exertions and activities.
		The style was a success, however, and David profited from exhibiting the Sabine Women in his studio at an admission charge.
		The Bourbons exiled David to Brussels and to an essentially sterile existence.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles04/article1361.shtml (643 words)

	Sizing Up Jacques-Louis David, in a Compact Way - New York Times
		David quickly became the 19th-century's bête noire, the personification of the Academy that Courbet and Manet challenged and the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists largely ignored.
		Somehow, David had the ambition and the savvy to keep his boat not only afloat but somewhere near the head of the fleet.
		And under Napoleon, David was named First Painter, although he had to be asked twice.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/06/10/arts/design/10davi.html?ex=1276056000&en=58192f0d1b05f5d3&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss (795 words)

	Timken Museum: Jacques-Louis David
		David brings the sitter down to earth by positioning the head lower on the canvas than is traditional in French portraiture.
		Cooper Penrose traveled from Ireland to Paris in 1802 to commission David, the most famous painter in Europe, to paint his portrait.
		Attention is drawn to the brilliantly painted head and hands, which form a triangle in the center of the composition.
	www.timkenmuseum.org /1-french-david.html (137 words)

	Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825)
		David chose to romanticize the event by changing the sure-footed mule on which Bonaparte crossed the alps into a dashing charger.
		David painted the uniform accurately because he had it brought to his studio.
		David and his assistants painted five versions of this famous portrait.
	www.batguano.com /bgma/david.html (129 words)

	David Jacques Louis
		David Jacques Louis was born 1748 and lived to the year 1825.
		David was born in Paris so he influenced many of the popular artists in France in the 1800's.
		David was also very active in his participation of the French Revolution.
	www.northstar.k12.ak.us /schools/tan/lite/arts/Joel.html (134 words)

	Jacques-Louis David
		When Jacques-Louis David (dah-veed) was nine years old, his father was killed in a duel.
		David was on the committee that voted to execute King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette.
		David is an excellent example of an artist changing with the times in which he lived.
	www.albrightknox.org /ArtStart/David.html (633 words)

	Warren Buffet + Jacques-Louis David
		Unfortunately, David sided with the Montagnard extremists, such as Danton, Marat and Robespierre &; and voted for the execution of Louis XVI.
		David's father must have been both prideful and foolish, because he died in a duel when his son was 10.
		David was one of the organizers of French treasures for the Louvre museum.
	www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com /rants/0830almanac.htm (715 words)

	Jacques-Louis David - Empire to Exile
		Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825) was the most famous—and controversial—artist of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
		Jacques-Louis David: Empire to Exile traces the last twenty-five years of his turbulent career, from the mid-1790s following his imprisonment for his political entanglements, until his death in 1825 as an exile in Brussels.
		This exhibition, the first to focus on David's late career, offers a fresh assessment of the work of one of European art's canonical masters.
	www.clarkart.edu /exhibitions/david/content/index.cfm (197 words)

	Jacques-Louis David -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		French painter Jacques-Louis David is often considered the leader of the neoclassical school, which embraced the grandeur and simplicity of the art of antiquity.
		Oath of the Horatii, oil painting by Jacques-Louis David, 1784; in the Louvre, Paris.
		Louis Malle was part of the New Wave of French films, but he also experimented with a wide variety of film subjects, styles, and genres.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9029481 (782 words)

	Artist who backed the wrong emperor csmonitor.com
		David was the most celebrated painter of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, known around the world for the large Neoclassical history paintings that celebrate his beloved French Revolution and, eventually, his somewhat confusing devotion to the Emperor Napoleon.
		In 1989, the Louvre mounted a David retrospective, including canvases from his early career that are permanently installed there due to their sheer size.
		Despite David's fame and influence on successive generations, no museum in the United States has hosted a show on the French artist.
	www.csmonitor.com /2005/0211/p11s01-alar.html (1052 words)

	Jacques-Louis David's 'Marat' - Cambridge University Press
		This book focuses on Jacques-Louis David’s ‘Marat’, one of the key works of art created during the period of the French Revolution and one of the most important works of Western painting.
		David’s Marat as posthumous portrait Anthony Halliday; 3.
		Methods and materials in David’s Marat Libby Sheldon; 5.
	www.cambridge.org /catalogue/catalogue.asp?ISBN=0521563372 (245 words)

	Neo-Classical Painting: Jacques Louis David
		Jacques Louis David (1748-1825), Oath of the Horatii, 1784-85.
		The Salon and David's Oath of the Horatii.
		David, Napoleon Crossing the St. Bernard Pass, 1800-01.
	employees.oneonta.edu /farberas/arth/ARTH110/ARTH110_SL19.html (147 words)

	Jacques-Louis David: Mr. Stolyarov's Gallery of Rational Art
		Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) was a neoclassical artist who applied his meticulous technique to both subjects of Greek mythology and of his era, painting images of Socrates and Bonaparte alike with an impression of pride about the subjects.
		Jacques-Louis David: Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon I (1806-1807)
		Jacques-Louis David: Monsieur Lavoisier and his Wife (1788)
	www.geocities.com /gennadystolyarovii/gallery_david.html (123 words)

	Your Daily Art: "Calgon Take Me Away"
		David ushered in a return to classical ideals and away from the Rococo with this homage to the death of his friend.
		David's stark scene conveys the shock and sadness he felt after learning Maret had been killed.
		Marat was an outspoken leader of the French Revolution and was murdered in his bath after receiving a letter of admission into his home for the murderer.
	www.jerryandmartha.com /yourdailyart/2005/04/calgon-take-me-away.html (196 words)

	Jacques-Louis David
		This beautifully illustrated book, focusing on a selection of later paintings and drawings by Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825), is published to accompany the first major exhibition of the artist’s work in the United States.
		The book also investigates David’s new approach to antiquity in historical compositions and the avowed influence of the Flemish School on his practice.
		Art historian Philippe Bordes establishes David’s position after the Terror and discusses the artist’s admiration for Napoleon Bonaparte, for whom he served as court painter.
	yalepress.yale.edu /yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=0300104472 (222 words)

	Kids.net.au - Encyclopedia Jacques Louis David -
		Jacques-Louis David (1748 - 1825) was a French painter.
		He was a central figure of the French Neoclassicism art movement.
	www.kidsseek.com /encyclopedia-wiki/ja/Jacques_Louis_David (101 words)

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