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5 days ago · This famous depiction of Marat’s assassination (1793) is by the unofficial (and sometimes official) artist of the French Revolution, Jacques–Louis David, a leading exponent of the neoclassical style. Scholars have seen this vision as a revolutionary pietà because of the repose of the corpse, so different from that of a normal body in a ...
4 days ago · In the foreground we see three main elements, borrowing from different sources. On the right, two women drawn from Jacques-Louis David’s painting The Oath of the Horatii, 1784, are shown mourning. They are painted in the Neo-Classicist style, with chiaroscuro technique (high contrasts between light and shadow), but using a more varied color ...
2 days ago · The Oath of the Pequod: Moby-Dick, Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii, and the Aesthetic of the Distinct. Leviathan, 24(1), 3–23. Alder, E. (2017). Through ...
4 days ago · Statue of Liberty, colossal statue on Liberty Island in the Upper New York Bay, U.S., commemorating the friendship of the peoples of the United States and France.Standing 305 feet (93 metres) high including its pedestal, it represents a woman holding a torch in her raised right hand and a tablet bearing the adoption date of the Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776) in her left.
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23 hours ago · Jacques-Louis David's 1784 painting Oath of the Horatii displayed a raised arm salutatory gesture in an ancient Roman setting. [22] [23] [24] The gesture and its identification with ancient Rome was advanced in other French neoclassic art .
23 hours ago · Igor Stravinsky. Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky [a] (17 June [ O.S. 5 June] 1882 – 6 April 1971) was a Russian composer and conductor with French citizenship (from 1934) and American citizenship (from 1945). He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century and a pivotal figure in modernist music .
2 days ago · Jaques-Louis David, Oath of the Horatii, 1784, France, (Neoclassicism), oil on canvas Jacques-Louis David, Napoleon Crossing the St. Bernard, 1800-1801, France, (Neoclassicism/Romanticism), oil on canvas
