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NEO-CLASSICAL PAINTING: JACQUES LOUIS DAVID

SLIDE LIST 19

 

 
 Watteau, Pilgrimage to Cythera, 1717.  Jacques Louis David (1748-1825), Oath of the Horatii, 1784-85. (Ads: Boys / Girls )

 
 
 Poussin, Holy Family on the Steps, 1648.  

 
 
 David, Death of Socrates, 1787.

 
   Raphael, School of Athens, 1510-11.

David, The Tennis Court Oath, 20th June, 1789, drawing done in 1791.

Arringatore (Aulus Metellus), Roman Republican bronze portrait,1st c. B.C.

Roman Marriage Ceremony, 17th century engraving after Roman sarcophagus.

 

 

 
 David, Death of Marat, 1793.  Michelangelo, Pieta, 1498-1500.

 
Delaroche, Napoleon Crossing the St. Bernard Pass. 1848.  David, Napoleon Crossing the St. Bernard Pass, 1800-01.

 

 
 Francisco Goya (1746-1828), The Third of May, 1808, painted in 1814.  Goya, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, 1796-98, etching.
 

 
   David, Oath of the Horatii, 1784-85.

 
   Details of the Third of May.
 

 

 
 Goya, Christ in the Garden of Olives, 1819.
 Goya, Saturn Devouring his Sons.  

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Pietro Antonio Martini, The Salon of 1785

The Salon and David's Oath of the Horatii. .

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Questions for Review

 

 
 Watteau, Pilgrimage to Cythera, 1717.  Jacques Louis David (1748-1825), Oath of the Horatii, 1784-85.

Through an examination of the style and the subject matter of these works, document the transformation of 18th century art. Note the artistic traditions these works grew out of.

 

 
 Jacques Louis David (1748-1825), Oath of the Horatii, 1784-85.  Francisco Goya (1746-1828), The Third of May, 1808, painted in 1814.

Besides being important artistic statements, these two works were important political and social manifestos. Define the different points of view these works express, and show how the artists have used artistic means to reinforce their statements.

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