Jacques-Louis David

Jacques-Louis David (August 30, 1748 – December 29 1825) was a highly influential French painter 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.

References

• Lindsay, Jack. Death of the Hero. London: Studio Books, 1960 pg 13-15, 18, 39-40, 73, 76, 103, 146
• J.L. David on CGFA, accessed 29 June 2005.
• Dowd, David. Pageant-Master of the Republic. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1948. pg 8-12, 50, 102
• The Death of Socrates, acessed 29 June 2005. New York Med.
• Chodorow, Stanley, et. al. The Mainstream of Civilization. New York: The Harcourt Press, 1994 pg. 594
• Leymarie, Jean. French Painting, the 19th century. Cleveland: 1962 pg 21-24
• Jacques-Louis David, on An Abridged History of Europe, accessed 29 June 2005.
• Jacques-Louis David, French Painter on The Page of the Dead, accessed 29 June 2005.