In 1793, Jacques Louis David, the official artist of the French Revolution, painted the Death of Marat as a tribute to his slain friend, the revolutionary propagandist Jean-Paul Marat ...

A strangely hypnotic portrait, Jacques-Louis David's The Death of Marat has emerged as one of the most famous images of the blood-soaked French Revolution. The history behind this morbid ...

Yet the fascination with his skin condition endured. After Marat’s death, his friend Jacques-Louis David painted his famous portrait The Death of Marat as tribute and as propaganda. The painting ...

a moderate republican faction that opposed the popular violence Marat had helped stoke, burst in and stabbed him to death in the chest with a kitchen knife. Marat bled out within seconds.

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The Death of Marat by Stanisław Frenkiel, 1960s, photo: Antoni Bohdanowicz Charlotte Corday has just murdered Marat. She is holding the list of names that the French revolutionary wrote down from her ...

During the French Revolution, David painted a memorial to his great friend, the murdered publisher, Jean Marat. Here is the background of the time and events that influenced this masterpiece.

His ability to fully be Marat from his first appearance sitting in the bathtub until the finale and the spot-on replication of imagery pictured in Jacques-Louis David’s “The Death of Marat” — an image ...