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 )

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 Andromache Mourning Hector was his reception offering in 1783 ; today it is in the collections of the Louvre Museum.

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 ).

In 1789, Jacques-Louis David attempted to leave his artistic mark on the historical beginnings of the French Revolution with his painting of The Oath of the Tennis Court.

Sketch by Jacques-Louis David of the Tennis Court Oath.

The National Assembly taking the Tennis Court Oath ( sketch by Jacques-Louis David ).

Oath of the Horatii | The Oath of the Horatii, by Jacques-Louis David

Sketch by Jacques-Louis David of the Tennis Court Oath.

His paper, the Point du Jour, according to François Victor Alphonse Aulard, owed its reputation not so much to its own qualities as to the fact that the painter Jacques-Louis David, in his sketch of the Tennis Court Oath, showed Barère kneeling in the corner and writing a report of the proceedings for posterity.

Sketch by Jacques-Louis David of the Tennis Court Oath.

Jacques-Louis David, Oath of the Horatii, 1784

" Tennis Court Oath " by Jacques-Louis David

Oath of the Horatii | The Oath of the Horatii ( 1784 ), by Jacques-Louis David

At one point, Jacques-Louis David, then composing his Oath of the Horatii ( 1784 ) at Rome, wished to take him to Paris.

Oath of the Horatii ( 1784 ), by Jacques-Louis David

Although not present at the event of June 1789, Roederer was sketched by Jacques-Louis David into his drawing of the Tennis Court Oath.

Oath of the Horatii ( French: Le Serment des Horaces ), is a large painting by the French artist Jacques-Louis David painted in 1784 and now in the Louvre in Paris.

* The famous uncompleted painting by Jacques-Louis David, The Tennis Court Oath ( 1789 ), portraying a pivotal event in French history when members of the National Assembly swore an emotional oath that they would not disband until they had passed a “ solid and equitable Constitution .“ This event is often regarded as the beginning of the French Revolution.

The Lictors Bring Home the Sons of Brutus by Jacques-Louis David ( 1784 ) Tiberius Junius Brutus ( d. ca.

The Lictors Bring Home the Sons of Brutus by Jacques-Louis David ( 1784 )

Artemis and Apollo Piercing Niobe's Children with their Arrows by Jacques-Louis David., Dallas Museum of Art.

Having been awarded first prize in drawing by the Academy, in August 1797 he traveled to Paris to study with Jacques-Louis David, France's — and Europe's — leading painter during the revolutionary period, in whose studio he remained for four years.

Three notable works, all dating from the 1770s, " Apollo and Diana Attacking Niobe and her Children " by Anicet-Charles-Gabriel Lemonnier, " The Children of Niobe Killed by Apollo and Diana " by Pierre-Charles Jombert and " Diana and Apollo Piercing Niobe ’ s Children with their Arrows " by Jacques-Louis David belong to the tradition of French Baroque and Classicism.

In 1815 he began his training with Pierre-Narcisse Guérin in the neoclassical style of Jacques-Louis David.

Madame Raymond de Verninac by Jacques-Louis David, with clothes and chair in Directoire style.

File: 1799-Verninac-David. jpg | Madame Raymond de Verninac by Jacques-Louis David, with clothes and chair in Directoire style.

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.

Madame Raymond de Verninac by Jacques-Louis David, with clothes and chair in Directoire style.

When in 1776, at the height of his established reputation, he became director of the school of France at Rome, he took Jacques-Louis David with him amongst his pupils.

The only thing that all Downtown music might be said to have in common is that, at least at the time of its original appearance, it was too bizarre – by dint of excessive length, stasis, simplicity, extemporaneity, consonance, noisiness, pop influence, vernacular reference, or other purported infraction – to have been considered " serious " modern music by proponents of " uptown " music performed from the 1960s through the 1980s at the Juilliard School, Columbia University, and Lincoln Center, under the direction of the composers Charles Wuorinen and Harvey Sollberger in concerts by The Group for Contemporary Music, and concerts directed by the French conductor and pianist, Jacques-Louis Monod with the Guild of Composers.

Marc Delafontaine ( Born at Celigny, 1837 – 1911 ) was a Swiss chemist who in 1878, along with Jacques-Louis Soret, first observed holmium spectroscopically.

Jacques-Louis Soret ( 30 June 1827 – 13 May 1890 ) was a Swiss chemist who in 1878, along with Marc Delafontaine, first observed holmium spectroscopically.

He was a leader of the neoclassical and historical movement in French art, along with his rival Jacques-Louis David, another pupil of Vien.

Pierre-Jean David ( March 12, 1788 – January 4, 1856 ), usually called David d ' Angers to avoid confusion with the unrelated painter Jacques-Louis David, was a French sculptor and medallist.

Concerto No. 2 in D major is an example of grace and balance, two characteristics to be found in the fine portrait of the composer by Jacques-Louis David, qualities which are associated with Mozart, explaining why Devienne was called the French Mozart.

Wiley's Napoleon Leading the Army over the Alps ( 2005 ) is based on Napoleon Crossing the Alps ( 1800 ) by Jacques-Louis David, often regarded as a " masterpiece ", now restaged by Wiley with an African rider wearing modern army fatigues and a bandanna.