The major survey repositions the French artist as more than a Neoclassicist, emphasising instead his realism and idealism ...

The Louvre celebrates the French master—who painted for Louis XVI before morphing into an ardent revolutionary and then a portraitist of Napoleon—with an exhibition marking the bicentennial of his ...

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 ...

“Napoleon” costume designers divvied up their tasks, with Janty Yates concentrating on French civilian wear and David Crossman on evolving military outfits. The Ridley Scott epic follows Napoleon ...

85 x 132 cm. (33.5 x 52 in.) The present work depicts the death of Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger (c.4 BC-65 AD) as described by Tacitus in the Annals (XV, 60-64). Emperor Nero, who stands on the ...

PARIS — The Louvre can credibly claim to be the greatest museum on the planet, but it’s had better months. The heist of jewels estimated to be worth between “inestimable” and 88 million euros is the ...

What happens when you get the best art historians, curators, and conservators together in a single museum? Well, you're pretty likely to get the best deals in the art world, as the Metropolitan Museum ...

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 ...

Le serment du Jeu de Paume, after : Le serment du Jeu de Paume. Engraving by Jazet. Moulded and gilded stuccoed wood frame decorated with palmettes. 19th century wood Sculpture 124 x 92 cm Estimate ...

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