The Death of Marat is a Neoclassical painting executed by Jacques Louis David in 1793.
Explanation:
Neoclassicism was a cultural movement born in Western Europe in the mid-eighteenth century, which had a large influence on art and culture throughout the West until the mid-nineteenth century. It was based on the ideals of the Enlightenment and a renewed interest in the culture of Classical Antiquity, advocating the principles of moderation, balance and idealism as a reaction against the decorative and dramatic excesses of Baroque. In the case of The Death of Marat, David portrayed one of the leaders of the French Revolution as a martyr, almost as a Christ. Using soft light, and a black background, David introduced us to Marat's death inside his bathtub. His pose resembles us the Michelangelo's Pietá, giving to him an aura of divinity and peace. His face did not transparence sadness or pain. With this, David tries to show that Marat was murdered, but died in peace.
The Death of Marat (French: La Mort de Marat or Marat Assassiné) is a 1793 painting by Jacques-Louis David of the killed French revolutionary pioneer Jean-Paul Marat. It is an amongst the most acclaimed pictures of the French Revolution.
David was the main French painter, just as a Montagnard and an individual from the progressive Committee of General Security. The artistic creation demonstrates the extreme columnist lying dead in his shower on July 13, 1793, after his homicide by Charlotte Corday.
Painted in the months after Marat's homicide, it has been depicted by T. J. Clark as the main pioneer painting, for "the manner in which it accepting the stuff of legislative issues as its material, and did not transmute it".
