NEOCLASSICISM · ARTIST

Jacques-Louis David

1748–1825 · French · Neoclassicism
The severe master
Jacques-Louis David

The painter who turned antiquity into a weapon, giving the French Revolution its visual language with stone-hard compositions and Roman civic virtue at full-canvas scale. He survived a king, a revolution, a terror, and Napoleon, adjusting his brushwork for each without ever softening the severity that made him unmistakable.

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