Arts Neoclassical and Romantic arts The Death of Marat Painting by Jacques-Louis David
The Death of Marat is a 1793 painting by
Jacques-Louis David of the murdered French revolutionary leader Jean-Paul Marat. It is one of the most famous images of the French Revolution. David was the leading French painter, as well as a Montagnard and a member of the revolutionary Committee of General Security. Napoleon I on His Imperial Throne Painting by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Napoleon I on his Imperial Throne is an
1806 portrait of Napoleon I of France in his coronation costume, painted by the French painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. The Death of Socrates Painting by Jacques-Louis David
The Death of Socrates is an oil on
canvas painted by French painter Jacques-Louis David in 1787. The painting focuses on a classical subject like many of his works from that decade, in this case the story of the execution of Socrates as told by Plato in his Phaedo. The Coronation of Napoleon Painting by Jacques-Louis David
The Coronation of Napoleon is a painting
completed in 1807 by Jacques-Louis David, the official painter of Napoleon, depicting the coronation of Napoleon at Notre-Dame de Paris. Liberty Leading the People Painting by Eugène Delacroix
Liberty Leading the People is a painting
by Eugène Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled King Charles X of France. The Raft of the Medusa Painting by Théodore Géricault
The Raft of the Medusa – originally titled
Scène de Naufrage – is an oil painting of 1818–19 by the French Romantic painter and lithographer Théodore Géricault. Completed when the artist was 27, the work has become an icon of French Romanticism. Saturn Devouring His Son Painting by Francisco Goya
Saturn Devouring His Son is the name
given to a painting by Spanish artist Francisco Goya. According to the traditional interpretation, it depicts the Greek myth of the Titan Cronus, who, fearing that he would be overthrown by one of his children, ate each one upon their birth. Wanderer above the Sea of Fog Painting by Caspar David Friedrich
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, also
known as Wanderer above the Mist or Mountaineer in a Misty Landscape, is an oil painting c. 1818 by the German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich. It has been considered one of the masterpieces of Romanticism and one of its most representative works. Nymphs and Satyr Painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Nymphs and Satyr is a painting, oil on
canvas, created by artist William-Adolphe Bouguereau in 1873. Nymphs and Satyr was exhibited in Paris at the 1873 Salon, which opened on 5 May, a year before the Impressionists mounted their first exhibition. Spoliarium Painting by Juan Luna
The Spoliarium is a painting by Filipino
painter Juan Luna. Luna, working on canvas, spent eight months completing the painting which depicts dying gladiators. The painting was submitted by Luna to the Exposición Nacional de Bellas Artes in 1884 in Madrid, where it garnered the first gold medal.