Jacques-Louis David was the greatest representative of the Neo-Classical style. After the French Revolution seized control of France from the aristocrats, dainty, Frivolous Rococo gave way to a new austere Republican style. David was active in the French Revolution and a supporter of Napoleon. Determined to portray his political beliefs in art, David painted in an "Empire style." David's most famous painting, The Death of Marat, was called the Pieta of the Revolution, after images of the dead Jesus. The revolutionary Marat was killed in the bathtub by an assailant who gained entry to his house with a purported list of enemies of the Republic.
DEATH OF MARAT! THE GREAT MARTYR OF THE REVOLUTION! THE LEN BIAS! THE PISTOL PETE! THE BRISTOL, CT. Paranoia blues!
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