Bridgeman Arts
The Death of Marat / The Pen is Mightier than the Sword
One of the most dramatic depictions of the French Revolution, The Death of Marat shows, in the development from its original sketch to the finished artwork, an innovative use of stylization and light that will later define it as the...
Bridgeman Arts
Madame Recamier
The painting ""Madame Recamier"" by Jacques Louis David exhibits perfectly the taste for Classical Antiquity at that time. The neutral and incomplete background provides highlight to the refined figure.