Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David (August 30, 1748 ? December 29, 1825)
was a highly influential French oil painting artist in the
Neoclassical style. In the 1780s his cerebral brand of history
painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity
towards a classical austerity and severity, chiming with the moral
climate of the final years of the ancien régime. David later became
an active supporter of the French Revolution and friend of
Maximilien de Robespierre, and was effectively a dictator of the
arts under the French Republic. Imprisoned after Robespierre's fall
from power, he aligned himself with yet another political regime
upon his release, that of Napoleon I. It was at this time that he
developed his 'Empire style', notable for its use of warm Venetian
colours. David had a huge number of pupils, making him the
strongest influence in French art of the 19th century, especially
academic Salon painting.
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