Art in Context | Bodies and Bodices: A Study of Revolutionary Europe Through Art and Fashion (Part 3 of 6)

FEBRUARY 18 | Revolutionary Fever: Jacques-Louis David and His Students

In this lecture, we will trace how Jacques-Louis David, an ardent Jacobin who voted for the king’s execution, drew on classical traditions to cast revolutionary events in the language of heroic history, while also examining the artists in his circle who ultimately broke from their master to create sensuous, exotic paintings that captured the era’s emotional intensity.