5 april 2011

~Jacques-Louis David

Jacques-Louis David

by Jacques-Louis David (French 1748-1825)
~ Coronation of Napoleon and Josephine (detail)

David was a highly influential French painter in the
Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent
painter of the era. In the 1780s his cerebral brand
of history painting marked a change in taste away
from Rococo frivolity toward a classical austerity
and severity, heightened feeling chiming with the moral
climate of the final years of the ancien régime.
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2 opmerkingen:

Hermes zei

If only she knew her future ? But a lovely painting.

Unknown zei

Hi my friend! Hope you're doing fine...I was thinking about you today...only good thoughts ;O)