Tuesday, March 1, 2011

The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David and quote by fashion photographer Eugenio Recuenco


The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David

The Death of Marat (French: La Mort de Marat )
is really a 1793 painting inside the Neoclassic art painting techniques by Jacques-Louis David, it really is probably the most famous images of the French Revolution. This work refers to the assassination of radical journalist Jean-Paul Marat, killed on the 13th of July 1793 by Charlotte Corday, a French Revolutionary figure from the minor aristocratic family. Corday, who blamed Marat for the September Massacres and feared an exciting out civil war, claimed “I killed one man in order to save 100,000.”
La Mort de Marat Jacques - Louis David
plus a quote by fashion photographer Eugenio Recuenco


The Death of Marat by Eugenio Recuenco 

Jean-Paul Marat (24 May 1743 - 13 July 1793),
would be a Swiss-born French physician, philosopher, political theorist and scientist most widely known being a radical journalist and politician from the French Revolution.
Marat often sought
a chilly bath to help ease violent itching due to a skin disorder long said to have been contracted years earlier, when he was instructed to hide from his enemies within the Paris sewers.
David
was obviously a good friend of Marat, in addition to a strong supporter of Robespierre as well as the Jacobins. Because of his difficulty speaking (he previously a benign but large facial tumor, caused by a personal injury sustained while fencing); David was at a loss for their natural ease of convincing crowds making use of their speeches. Determined to memorialize his friend, David painted this impressive painting techniques of Marat.

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