Neoclassicism
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Neoclassicism, also spelled Neo-classicism, emerged as a Western cultural movement in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art an
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Cupid driving a chariot pulled by griffins, by Michelangelo Maestri, c.1800, unknown media or location
Parc et Château de Rambouillet
Pair of Spindle Vases OA 11090 Louvre
Jacques-Louis David
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Jacques-Louis David 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 aw
Neoclassicism
…of Romanticism, and sought to evoke drama and excitement. Neoclassicism in painting gained a new sense of direction with the sensational success of Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii at the Paris Salon of 1785. Despite its evocation of republican virtues, this was a commission by the royal government, which…
Self-Portrait, 1794 (Musée du Louvre)
Portrait of David as a youth, circa 1765, by his tutor Joseph-Marie Vien
Mademoiselle Guimard as Terpsichore, 1774–1775, an early work
Equestrian portrait of Stanisław Kostka Potocki (1781)