Jacques-Louis David Quotes

Jacques-Louis David — French Artist born on August 30, 1748, died on December 29, 1825

Jacques-Louis David was an influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward a classical austerity and severity, heightened feeling harmonizing with the moral climate of the final years of the Ancien Régime... (wikipedia)