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The Art Curious podcast is sponsored by Anchorlight. For more information about all of Anchorlight's artistic and creative endeavors,

please visit Anchorlightroly.com. I am a Jacques-Louis-David junkie, and always have been from the moment

I first laid eyes upon his famous Oath of the Horatiae painting in an art history 101 class. In truth, I love all

the neoclassicist French paintings of the 18th century, so it's not just David that gets me going.

But for me, David is one of the true top guys. He's just my jam. The way that he was able to present

classically inspired bodies and scenes is just so

beautiful. And even better, the way he could hint at a wellspring of incredible emotion with just a

figure's upturned finger or painfully curled toes. And then David goes from being the best

neoclassical painter to becoming one of the best painters of the early romantic period, jumping from

one category to the next, achieving fame in portraiture and grand historical scenes. I love his works.

But I've got to say that some of them can be a little too busy, though mostly with good reason.

There's just so much going in his monumental painting of the coronation of Napoleon,

for example, at the Louvre today, that I can barely focus on the emperor himself, let alone

anything else. And it is for this reason alone that one of my favorite works David created

is one of the quietest in his oeuf. It's solemn, funereal, silently glorifying. But it was just these attributes,

as well as the subject of that painting, that really got viewers angry when seeing this work

for the very first time.

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