In a case of movies imitating art, and art imitating life (or some jumble along those lines), Jacques-Louis David’s monumental history painting depicting the moment Napoleon Bonaparte was ...

The amazing accomplishments of French artist Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) went beyond the success he enjoyed as the most celebrated and some say most talented painter in the Europe of his day.

“Napoleon” costume designers divvied up their tasks, with Janty Yates concentrating on French civilian wear and David Crossman on evolving military outfits. The Ridley Scott epic follows ...

Jacques-Louis David, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836), 1788 Metropolitan Museum of Art Conservator Dorothy Mahon first ...

The Brooklyn Museum has hung Jacques-Louis David’s “Bonaparte Crossing the Alps” alongside an adaptation by Kehinde Wiley. It’s a face-off between two visions of the political power of art.

Detail of Max Ernst, "Au rendez-vous des amis" (1922), featuring, left to right: Louis Aragon ... and ’20s, as Surrealism reacted to the Dada movement — even, as scholar Jacques Dürrenmatt ...