'Jacques-Louis David' review: Turbulent life, towering work

The Louvre celebrates the French master—who painted for Louis XVI before morphing into an ardent revolutionary and then a ...
Artnet

Ridley Scott Recreated Jacques-Louis David’s ‘Coronation of Napoleon.’ Here Are 3 Things You May Not Know About the Monumental Work

In a case of movies imitating art, and art imitating life (or some jumble along those lines), Jacques-Louis David’s monumental history painting depicting the moment Napoleon Bonaparte was publicly ...
The Washington Post

Hot young bodies in bed, as painted by a great neoclassicist

Jacques-Louis David was in exile in Belgium when he turned to erotic mythology Jacques-Louis David was one of art history’s great propagandists. His lifetime (1748-1825) overlapped with the last days ...
The Washington Post

They said it was a masterpiece when they thought a man had painted it

The Met acquired it as a work by Jacques-Louis David. It was by a little-known woman. So much to love about this painting. The exquisitely simple white dress, for starters. (Who doesn’t love those ...