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- Artist: Jaques Louis David
- Title: The Oath of Horatii
- Date: 1784
- Style/Movement: Neo-Classical
- -Roman soldiers swear to die for their country while wives and sister mourn.
- -Comissioned by King of France, made in Rome
- -luxury of the aristocracy and pro-patriotism
- -writings of J.J. Winckelmann and discovery of Pompeii makes Greek/Roman classical (450) bce the ideal.
- -proportion and geometric ordering (Polyklitus)
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- Artist: David
- Title: Belasarius Begging for Alms
- Date: 1781
- Style/Movement: Neo-Classical
- - During French Revolution, social political content
- -Young soldeir is shocked at the image of the older fallen soldier begging for money, could be him
- -Shows glory of youth, mercy
- -Belisarius was a Byzantine general defeated Vandals in N. Africa, later blinded by emperor and reduced to begging
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http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/his/CoreArt/art/resourcesb/dav_soc.jpg 
- Artist: David
- Title: Death of Socrates
- Date: 1787
- Style: Neo-Classical
- -recto-linear composition
- -references Raphael's school of Athens (pointing up) and sistine chapel David (hand out)
- -Idealized figure, moral content focusing on revolutionary theme of Republic and self-sacrifice, moving away from Rococco portrayal of aristocracy.
- -intimate rococco setting changes to hard lines, and geomertry, roman/greek idealization
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- Artist: David
- Title: Death of Marat
- Date: 1793
- Style/Movement: Neo-classical
- - Murdered by Charlotte Corday, blaming him for the death of her father at the September Massacres
- -soaked in tub because of skin condition, go-to person during revolutuion
- -philosopher and political theorist, martyred in composition, gesture similar to pieta, cloth like a halo
- - dark cool colors, rectilinear
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Artist: David
- Title: Napoleon Crossing the Alps
- Date: 1800
- Stlyle: Neo-Classical
- -David becomes court painter for Napoleon's Imperialistic rule
- -Heroic image: monumentalized above other
- figures, gesture shows that he is leading the charge, a cool red that draws the eye directly.
- -wind movement pushes figures foreward, diagonals, contrast b/w horse and stoic Napoleon
- -Charlemagne, Hannibal, Bonaparte on stonehttp://www.paintinghere.com/UploadPic/Jacques-Louis%20David/big/Napoleon%20crossing%20the%20Alps.jpg
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