Jacques-Louis David and His Political Art that Influenced France During March of this year I was fortunate enough to get to go to Paris, France where I visited the Musée Du Louvre. There this was one of the paintings that caught my eye. At the time I was in Art History: Neolithic to Renaissance so I had not gotten to the importance of the painting. But I managed to spend much time just sitting and staring at the painting. Something about this massive painting was fascinating. From the cultural context surrounding this painting to the vivid color. Having just recently gotten into art and the marvel that it is, this piece stuck out to me with a sense of its overly displayed pageantry and luxurious theme. The grand gestures made by David in this
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His father was killed in a duel in when David was 9 years old, and the boy was subsequently left by his mother to be raised by two uncles (Jacques-Louis David Biography.). His two uncles sent him to painter François Boucher, who was a leading painter of the time and just happened to be a family friend. David also studied drawing and the literary classics before being accepted into the Académie Royale at the young age of eighteen(Jacques-Louis David). Eight years of struggle, he finally won the coveted Prix de Rome (Jacques-Louis David). His visits to the ruins, exposure to Neoclassical doctrines, and study of Nicolas Poussin's classicism encouraged him to adopt a style and subject matter derived from antiquity (Jacques-Louis David). David became interested by the Neoclassical ideas that came from Rome (Jacques-Louis David Biography.). “In 1782, David married Marguerite Pécoul, whose father was an influential building contractor and the superintendent of construction at the Louvre (Jacques-Louis David Biography).” David created many pieces of art over his
His father was killed in a duel in when David was 9 years old, and the boy was subsequently left by his mother to be raised by two uncles (Jacques-Louis David Biography.). His two uncles sent him to painter François Boucher, who was a leading painter of the time and just happened to be a family friend. David also studied drawing and the literary classics before being accepted into the Académie Royale at the young age of eighteen(Jacques-Louis David). Eight years of struggle, he finally won the coveted Prix de Rome (Jacques-Louis David). His visits to the ruins, exposure to Neoclassical doctrines, and study of Nicolas Poussin's classicism encouraged him to adopt a style and subject matter derived from antiquity (Jacques-Louis David). David became interested by the Neoclassical ideas that came from Rome (Jacques-Louis David Biography.). “In 1782, David married Marguerite Pécoul, whose father was an influential building contractor and the superintendent of construction at the Louvre (Jacques-Louis David Biography).” David created many pieces of art over his