Jacques-Louis

The scene has come down to us as The Tennis Court Oath, an unfinished painting by Jacques-Louis David.

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

See Philippe Bordes, Le Serment du jeu de paume de Jacques-Louis David Paris: Éditions de la Réunion de la musées nationaux, 1983.

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

The documentary has so far received mixed reviews from critics: Julia Tech of the Washington Sun Dial has proclaimed the film "pure propaganda," while Jacques-Louis Louis-Jacques of Fanfaron du Cinema notes: "Its binary transgressive morality deliquesces Arcandian purity and dyspeptic Foucaultian somnambulism, creating a dual-time narrative fissure in which cinema self-possession collapses, rejecting meta-pastiche agitprop for an allegory about the camera's ability to view and be viewed."

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Imagine Jacques-Louis David's purposeful, besandaled Romans, swords upraised, swearing to do something noble, versus Jean-Honoré Fragonard's giggling charmers on swings, all fluttering petticoats and indolence.

Drawn to Revolution Karen Wilkin 2011

The documentary has so far received mixed reviews from critics: Julia Tech of the Washington Sun Dial has proclaimed the film "pure propaganda," while Jacques-Louis Louis-Jacques of Fanfaron du Cinema notes: "Its binary transgressive morality deliquesces Arcandian purity and dyspeptic Foucaultian somnambulism, creating a dual-time narrative fissure in which cinema self-possession collapses, rejecting meta-pastiche agitprop for an allegory about the camera's ability to view and be viewed."

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Injustices have created common-interest groups since the French Revolution and "Demonstrations: Making Normative Orders" examines the dynamics, aesthetics and portrayal of social movements through works by Irina Botea, Jacques-Louis David, James Gillray, Sharon Hayes, Alexander Hoepfner, Henry Ritter and others.

What's On Around Europe 2012

If you get to page 830 of Simon Schama's Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, you know that Robespierre decided that the revolution required an image to replace the discarded idea of God, so he asked Jacques-Louis David to produce a painting of the new "Supreme Being."

Jesse Kornbluth: The French Revolution As You've Never Seen It -- As a Graphic Novel Jesse Kornbluth 2011

He meets Jacques-Louis David, who is taken by his looks.

Jesse Kornbluth: The French Revolution As You've Never Seen It -- As a Graphic Novel Jesse Kornbluth 2011

On one wall hangs a replica of Jacques-Louis David's painting of the coronation by Napoleon of Empress Josephine.

Health System Reflects Greece's Ills Charles Forelle 2011

That work's point of departure was Jacques-Louis David's neoclassical "Intervention of the Sabine Women."

A Dystopian Film That Directs Itself 2011