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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. “ ...

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 ...