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In the tradition of official or semi official state artists before him, such as Jacques Louis David and Kasimir Malevich, Khosrojerdi, especially in his works from the 1980s, documented the socio-cultural landscape of the newly founded regime.
Art Knowledge News 2009
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Jacques Louis David didn't win until his fifth try.
En Loge Competition James Gurney 2009
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Although there are only a few cases - such as the portrait of Napoleon on horseback by Jacques Louis David - where we know that the person who commissioned the work approved greatly of this mode of pictorial representation, as regards commissioned portraits we can basically assume that those were largely identical to the image that the persons being portrayed had of themselves and wanted to convey through the portrait.
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Nevertheless, Jacques Louis David is dead, he died about a year after his bodily demise in 1825.
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This man, Jacques Louis David, in point of fact was soon practically to demonstrate to his colleagues that art had as its mission other aims than those followed by the painters of the preceding generations.
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Jacques Louis David, founder of the new French school of classicism in painting, died at the close of the year at Brussels.
A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) Edwin Emerson 1914
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Delaroche_; Delécluze, _Jacques Louis David, son École, et son Temps_; Duret, _Les Peintres français en 1867_; Gautier,
A Text-Book of the History of Painting John Charles Van Dyke 1894
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From the studios of Boucher and of Comte Joseph Marie Vien (1716-1809) there came towards the end of the eighteenth century the virile, revolutionary figure of Jacques Louis David (1748-1825), who burst like a thunderstorm on the corrupt artistic atmosphere of the age, sweetening and bracing French art for half a century.
The Story of Paris Thomas Okey 1893
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JEAN DAVID (1793-1856), who is called David of Angers, which was his birthplace, in order to distinguish him from Jacques Louis David, the great painter, who was like a father to this sculptor, though in no way connected with him by ties of kindred, as far as we know.
A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture Clara Erskine Clement Waters 1875
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Nevertheless, Jacques Louis David is dead, he died about a year after his bodily demise in 1825.
The Paris Sketch Book William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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