Jacques-Louis David was in exile in Belgium when he turned ... But David’s cool neoclassicism could make anything appropriate — even orgies of bloodletting. Psyche, in Greek mythology, was ...

Long before he was regarded as a pioneer of the Neoclassical style, 18th-century French painter Jacques-Louis David was fascinated by history, enamored by ancient art, and determined to use his ...

Jacques Louis David, “Reclining Male Nude” (1775 ... particularly in relation to the fascist embrace of Neoclassicism as a regressive bludgeon against Modernism. This is all to say that ...

It all sounds like children’s story hour in the shadow of Jacques-Louis David, the artist-moralist ... one of the most famous works of French neoclassicism.Credit...Clark Hodgin for The New ...

Whether you are within an academic environment or at a coffee shop, when the term “Neoclassicism” and its huge influence on the visual arts arise, you are likely to hear the name Jacques-Louis David ...

Jacques-Louis David depicts Napoleon’s older sister ... artist of his time and an important figure in late 18th-century Neoclassical reaction against the Rococo style, are universal and timely. “ ...

David’s original painting of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and his wife depicted the couple as self-indulged nobles rather than liberal leaders of science. Met conservator Dorothy Mahon performs ...

In a case of movies imitating art, and art imitating life (or some jumble along those lines), Jacques-Louis David ... nod to that neoclassical masterpiece does not miss a beat: David had in ...

In 1791, the French painter Jacques Louis David made a large, meticulously detailed drawing for a painting he never produced, called “The Oath of the Tennis Court.” It depicts a key moment ...