Jacques Louis David

Style: Neo-Classicism;

Place: Paris

Born: 1748

Death: 1800

Biography:

Jacques-Louis David (French: [ʒaklwi david] 30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was a 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 classical austerity and severity and heightened feeling, har...