Jacques-Louis David's facial abnormalities were traditionally reported to be a consequence of a deep facial sword wound after a fencing incident.

Jacques-Louis David was, in his time, regarded as the leading painter in France, and arguably all of Western Europe ; many of the painters honored by the restored Bourbons following the French Revolution had been David's pupils.

* Vaughan, William and Weston, Helen ( eds ), Jacques-Louis David's Marat, Cambridge ( 2000 )

Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii, 1784, with a scene from ancient history.

Exemplifying the French School are the early Avignon Pietà of Enguerrand Quarton ; the anonymous painting of King Jean le Bon ( c. 1360 ), possibly the oldest independent portrait in Western painting to survive from the postclassical era ; Hyacinthe Rigaud's Louis XIV ; Jacques-Louis David's The Coronation of Napoleon ; and Eugène Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People.

Beginning with Jacques-Louis David's painting The Oath of the Horatii ( 1784 ), an association of the gesture with Roman republican and imperial culture emerged through 18th century French art.

Cavaradossi studied art in Paris with Jacques-Louis David and lived in David's atelier during the French Revolution.

Neoclassicism in painting gained a new sense of direction with the sensational success of Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii at the Paris Salon of 1785.

The painter Jacques-Louis David's famous sketch, le Serment du jeu de paume (' the Tennis Court Oath ') now hangs in the court of the Palace of Versailles.

When Speed recalls his knowledge of French History, a rendition of Jacques-Louis David's painting of Napoleon Crossing the Alps, which depicts Napoleon riding Marengo, is drawn in the episode.

In 1800, Napoleon's army used the pass to enter Italy, an event depicted in Jacques-Louis David's Napoleon at the Saint-Bernard Pass and Hippolyte Delaroche's Bonaparte Crossing the Alps, both notable oil paintings.

Jacques-Louis David's painting The Oath of the Horatii ( 1784 ) provided the starting point for the gesture that became later known as the Roman salute.

Jacques-Louis David's painting The Oath of the Horatii ( 1784 ) provided the starting point for the gesture that became later known as the Roman Salute.

Jacques-Louis David's portrait of Madame Récamier.

The format suggests a children's book, but it contains enough allusiveness and advanced vocabulary to make it an unlikely read for a child: the entry for T quotes Blake's " The Tyger ," a seal is compared to Jacques-Louis David's portrait of Madame Récamier, and a braying donkey is described as " practicing solfeggio.

It marks a return to art history for him, treating eight artists through eight key works: Caravaggio's David with the Head of Goliath, Bernini's Ecstasy of St Theresa, Rembrandt's Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis, Jacques-Louis David's The Death Of Marat, J. M. W. Turner's The Slave Ship, Vincent van Gogh's Wheat Field with Crows, Picasso's Guernica, and Mark Rothko's Seagram Murals.

Above the grand staircase there is a reproduction of the first version of Jacques-Louis David's painting The Crowning of Josephine by Napoleon.

In this way he, by degrees, transferred from the shop window to his paper at home the chief figures from Jacques-Louis David's picture of Napoleon crossing the Alps, which, by particular request, he copied in bright colours as a frontispiece to a little schoolfellow's new prayer-book, for sixpence.

In the late 18th century, students in Jacques-Louis David's studio followed a rigorous program of instruction.

His most notable paintings include a copy of Jacques-Louis David's The Death of Marat ( 1793 ) and a series of works covering the life of the Virgin Mary, painted from 1810 – 1820 for the choir of the church of Notre-Dame de la Daurade in Toulouse.

Jacques-Louis David's 1784 painting Oath of the Horatii | The Oath of the Horatii, illustrating a dramatic moment from Livy's history of Rome, embodies eighteenth century ideas about civic virtue.

The story is perhaps best known from Jacques-Louis David's painting The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis, painted during David's exile in Brussels ( 1818 ), and now at the J. Paul Getty Museum.

At the start of the French Revolution in 1789, he was elected deputy to the States-General by the Third Estate of Vitry-le-François, and joined the National Assembly ( his portrait stands in the foreground in Jacques-Louis David's celebrated sketch of the Oath of the Tennis Court ).

File: Jacques-Louis David-Andromache Mourning Hector. JPG | Andromache mourns Hector ( 1783 ), Musée du Louvre, Paris

The Grief and Recriminations of Andromache over the Body of Hector Her Husband ( 1783 ) by Jacques-Louis David

" Andromache Mourning Hector " by Jacques-Louis David, 1783

Jacques-Louis David (; ) ( 30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825 ) was an influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era.

Jacques-Louis David was born into a prosperous family in Paris on 30 August 1748.

Disallowed return to France for burial, for having been a regicide of King Louis XVI, the body of the painter Jacques-Louis David was buried at Brussels Cemetery, while his heart was buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris.

Following World War II, Jacques-Louis David was increasingly regarded as a symbol of French national pride and identity, as well as a vital force in the development of European and French art in the modern era.

One of the most famous Imperial coronation ceremonies was that of Napoleon, crowning himself Emperor in the presence of Pope Pius VII ( who had blessed the regalia ), at the Notre Dame de Paris | Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. The painting by Jacques-Louis David | David commemorating the event is equally famous: the gothic cathedral restyled Empire ( style ) | style Empire, supervised by the Letizia Ramolino | mother of the Emperor on the balcony ( a fictional addition, while she had not been present at the ceremony ), the pope positioned near the altar, Napoleon proceeds to crown his then wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais as Empress.

Holmium ( Holmia, Latin name for Stockholm ) was discovered by Marc Delafontaine and Jacques-Louis Soret in 1878 who noticed the aberrant spectrographic absorption bands of the then-unknown element ( they called it " Element X ").

History painting was the dominant form of academic painting in the various national academies in the 18th century, and for most of the 19th ; in France artists such as Henri Jean-Baptiste Victoire Fradelle, Antoine-Jean, Baron Gros, Jacques-Louis David, Ingres, Claude Joseph Vernet, Carle Vernet, Pierre-Narcisse Guérin were among the leading figures.

Although he considered himself to be a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, by the end of his life it was Ingres's portraits, both painted and drawn, that were recognized as his greatest legacy.

A modified design by Jacques-Louis David was adopted in 1794.

The diorama was invented in 1822 by Louis Daguerre and Charles-Marie Bouton, the latter a former student of the renowned French painter Jacques-Louis David.

At the end of the century, Jacques-Louis David was the most influential painter of the Neoclassicism.

For example the painting of Jacques-Louis David which was seen as an attempt to return to formal balance, clarity, manliness, and vigor in art.

It was directed and produced by Jacques-Louis Mahé, a friend of Raymond Schwartz who, under the pseudonym ' Lorjak ', had previously produced a silent Esperanto publicity film before World War II titled Antaŭen!

The French painter Jacques-Louis David met Mengs in Rome ( 1775 – 80 ) and was introduced through him to the artistic theories of Winckelmann.

With a design by the painter Jacques-Louis David, a massive " Altar of the Nation " was built atop an artificial mountain and surmounted by a " Tree of Liberty ".

His murder was memorialized in a celebrated painting by Jacques-Louis David which shows Marat after Corday had stabbed him to death in his bathtub.

He returned to Paris before the end of the year, was well received by his family, and mixed in the cultivated circle which frequented his mother's salon, including Lebrun-Pindare, Antoine Lavoisier, Jean François Lesueur, Claude Joseph Dorat, and, a little later, the painter Jacques-Louis David.

His prose " Avis au peuple Français " ( 24 August 1790 ) was followed by the rhetorical " Jeu de paume ", a somewhat declamatory moral ode addressed to the painter Jacques-Louis David.

On June 8, 1794, a ceremony in honor of the Cult of the Supreme Being was organized in the Tuileries by Robespierre, with sets and costumes designed by Jacques-Louis David.

He was both an influential researcher and teacher, with students such as Bernard Malgrange, Jacques-Louis Lions, François Bruhat and Alexander Grothendieck.

Talma was among the earliest advocates of realism in scenery and costume, being aided by his friend, the painter Jacques-Louis David.

The French referred derisively to the style of academic art as L ' art Pompier ( pompier means " fireman ") alluding to the paintings of Jacques-Louis David ( who was held in esteem by the academy ) which often depicted soldiers wearing fireman-like helmets.