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Travel Belgium About Brussels Upper Town Musees Royaux Des Beaux Arts David And His Contemporaries

Skipping the uninspiring nineteenth-century works of Level -1 , press on up to Level +1 , where the obvious highlight is Jacques-Louis David's famous Death of Marat , a propagandist piece of 1793 showing Jean-Paul Marat, the French revolutionary hero, dying in his bath after being stabbed by Charlotte Corday. David (1748-1825) has given Marat a perfectly proportioned, classical torso and a face which, with its large hooded eyes, looks almost Christ-like, the effect heightened by the flatness of the composition and the emptiness of the background. The dead man clasps a quill in one hand and the letter given him by Corday in the other, inscribed "my deepest grief is all it takes to be entitled to your benevolence". The other note, on the wooden chest, is written by Marat and begins "You will give this warrant to that mother with the five children, whose husband died for his country". This was David's paean to a fellow revolutionary for, like Marat, he had voted for the execution of Louis XVI, was a Jacobin - the deadly rivals of the Girondins, who were supported by Corday - and a member of the revolutionary Convention, which commissioned this picture. He was also a leading light of the Neoclassical movement and became the new regime's Superintendent of the Fine Arts. He did well under Napoleon, too, but after Waterloo David, along with all the other regicides, was exiled, ending his days in Brussels



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