[2], Hans-Peter Feldmann, David (2006) in Cologne - since 2010 in Duisburg, Daniel Yi, "House of 'David': When 17 replicas of Michelangelo's famed statue adorn the outside of a home, is it art or excess?,", "The Positive Changes Of History - Nadey Hakim: "The Art's Surgeon, "Looking Back: Fawick's gift of the Statue of David", "Mike Caffee- Fe-Be's Leather David (1966)", Stanford, including comparisons with two small commercial replicas, "Davut sculpture goes to Kentucky 21C museum", "Louisville residents react to giant, gold David statue", "Check out Michelangelo's David… in Emerald Lakes", Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree, The Creation of the Sun, Moon and Vegetation, Study of a Kneeling Nude Girl for The Entombment, Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, Restoration of the Sistine Chapel frescoes, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Replicas_of_Michelangelo%27s_David&oldid=981816693, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, A bronze cast stands in front of the Kongelige Afstøbningssamling, the Danish Royal Cast Collection at the, Also intended for students was the cast in the, A bronze replica stands in the courtyard of the, A replica may be found at the "Appian Way Shops" at, In 1965, David Sollazzini and Sons of Florence, Italy created a, In 1966, Mike Caffee created a plaster statue for the gay, On February 26, 2013 a Lawrence, Kansas man with no formal training in sculpture molded a giant block of snow into a temporary inspiration of Michelangelo's, A bronze replica stands on the esplanade of, In India, a replica installed at the Administrative Building of the.
However, it is the surviving brother who is able to kill the other three fighters from Alba Longa: he allows the three fighters to chase him, causing them to separate from each other, and then, in turn, kills each Curiatii brother. The use of straight lines to depict strength is also demonstrated in the swords, two of which are curved while one is straight, perhaps foreshadowing that only one brother would survive the encounter. Throughout his history-changing career he developed an unparalleled ability to translate pathos, despair, and anguish to the figures he carved from marble – see the Pietá in St. Peter’s Basilica, and his famous statue of David. Mantel clock version, Carnavalet Museum, Paris, When the royalty, churchmen, and aristocrats went to view the painting, they eulogised it; the Pope himself expressed his desire to view The Oath of the Horatii. On the right, three women are weeping—one in the back and two up closer. [3], Diana and Apollo Killing Niobe's Children, Erasistratus Discovering the Cause of Antiochus' Disease, Saint Jerome Hears the Trumpet of the Last Judgment, Saint Roch Interceding with the Virgin for the Plague-Stricken, Portrait of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and his wife, The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons, Portrait of comte Antoine Français de Nantes, Land grant to Marduk-apla-iddina I by Meli-Shipak II, Statue of the Tiber river with Romulus and Remus, Vulcan Presenting Venus with Arms for Aeneas, The Attributes of Civilian and Military Music, The Attributes of Music, the Arts and the Sciences, Coresus Sacrificing Himself to Save Callirhoe, Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa, Don Pedro of Toledo Kissing Henry IV's Sword, Joan of Arc at the Coronation of Charles VII, Portrait of Madame Marcotte de Sainte-Marie, Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta Appraised by Dante and Virgil, Madonna and Child with Saint Peter and Saint Sebastian, Venus and the Three Graces Presenting Gifts to a Young Woman, A Young Man Being Introduced to the Seven Liberal Arts, Portrait of Alof de Wignacourt and his Page, The Doge on the Bucintoro near the Riva di Sant'Elena, Holy Family with the Family of St John the Baptist, Saints Bernardino of Siena and Louis of Toulouse, Madonna and Child with St John the Baptist and St Catherine of Alexandria, Madonna and Child with St Rose and St Catherine, Portrait of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, Portrait of Doña Isabel de Requesens y Enríquez de Cardona-Anglesola, Crucifixion with the Virgin Mary, St John and St Mary Magdalene, The Archangel Raphael Leaving Tobias' Family, Pendant portraits of Marten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit, Ixion, King of the Lapiths, Deceived by Juno, Who He Wished to Seduce, The Virgin and Child Surrounded by the Holy Innocents, Francis I, Charles V and the Duchess of Étampes, Street Scene near the El Ghouri Mosque in Cairo, Christopher Columbus Before the Council of Salamanca, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portrait_of_Madame_Récamier&oldid=982350589, Paintings of the Louvre by French artists, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 7 October 2020, at 16:21. Jacques-Louis David 011.jpg 1,256 × 1,616; 182 KB.

The painting depicts the Roman Horatius family, who, according to Titus Livius' Ab Urbe Condita (From the Founding of the City) had been chosen for a ritual duel against three members of the Curiatii, a family from Alba Longa, in order to settle disputes between the Romans and the latter city. Unlike in David's previous paintings (The Oath of the Horatii, Brutus, Louvre), women play the crucial role here. [5], It grew to be considered a paragon of neoclassical art. 47-53, 57-66 (traduit de l'anglais). This art also features his most sensuous painting of fabric, with the red drapes occupying one-third of the canvas. Far from being worth seeing due to its influence, however, the original is a must-see in its own right due to its being the best work of one of the greatest painters of the female form of all time. The Dying Slave features all of the agony and the ecstasy that characterizes the artists’ work (and led to the famous novel and film of the same name). The painting shows the three brothers on the left, the Horatii father in the center, and the three women along with two children on the right. On completion of the initial version, David immediately began work on the second version which was finished on 25 May, the date of Bonaparte's inspection of the portraits at David's Louvre workshop. After working as the ‘official artist’ of the French Revolution and leaving us with a series of epic canvases that will color interpretations of those events forever, Jacques-Louis David became court painter of the Second French Empire under Napoleon. The drawing was produced for an art lover, a friend of David's called Count Sommariva, but it actually remained in the painter's studio. This is one of the Louvre’s paintings so famous it has taken on a life of its own, Liberty Leading the People has inspired everything from the Statue of Liberty, Les Misérables to Coldplay’s Viva La Vida album cover. When the painter Jacques-Louis David returned from Italy he exhibited this work in the Salon of 1781 in Paris.