Full Description
A participant in and chronicler of the French Revolution, Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) also witnessed the rise of Napoleon, painting a series of works glorifying his reign. Simon Lee's book is the first to deal with all aspects of David's career and character and to trace his changing relationships with patrons. This is a fresh analysis with an abundance of new insight.
Contents
Background and artistic education - Parisian and Roman beginnings; painted virtue and patriotism - success in Enlightment Paris 1781-1789; the Raphael of the sans-culottes - David and the Revolution; the enterprise of "The intervention of the Sabine Women" - prison, recovery and change; the Emperor's painter - Napoleonic panorama; declining years? - David in exile; David's legacy.
