*Jacques Louis David (1748-1825), The Oath of the Horatii, 1784-1787, o/c, 10’8” x 14’, Louvre. Roman history and 17^th-century play by Corneille, painted for Louis XVI.

*David, The Death of Socrates, 1787, o/c, 51 x 77 ¼”, Metropolitan Museum, Salon of 1787

*David, The Death of Marat, 1793, o/c, 65 x 50”, Louvre

*David, The Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons, 1789, o/c, 10’8” x 13’11” (323 x 422 cm), Louvre, Salon of 1789

*David, Napoleon Crossing St.-Bernard, 1800-1801, o/c, 9’ x 7’7”

*Antoine-Jean Gros (1771-1835), Napoleon at the Pesthouse at Jaffa, 1804, o/c, 17’5” x 23’6”, Louvre. Set in the Ottoman Empire (Israel and Syria): interest in the exotic and contemporary event; propaganda.

·         Neo-Classicism, Neo-Classical art

·         Academic art

·         Salon exhibitions

·         French Revolution, 1789-93

·         Napoleon’s rise to power and rule as Emperor

•       Conscious quotation of Classical art: antique and Renaissance

•       Subject matter often taken from ancient Greek or Roman sources; emphasis on history painting in the French Academy

•       Art was intended to be didactic and moralizing, to instill civic virtues

•       Usually has a serious tone

•       Visual elements defined by crisp contours and sculptural forms; compositional arrangement is ordered and clear; color is secondary to form