David was the virtual art dictator of France for a generation. Extending beyond painting, his influence determined the course of fashion, furniture design, and interior decoration and was reflected in the development of moral philosophy. His art was a sudden and decisive break with tradition, and from this break “modern art” is dated. David studied with Vien, and after winning the Prix de Rome (which had been refused him four times, causing him to attempt …showed first 75 words of 2098 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2098 total…art to electrify even the commonest citizen." Bibliography: D. L. Dowd, Pageant-Master of the Republic (1948); J. Lindsay, Death of the Hero (1960); Warren Roberts, Jacques Louis David, Revolutionary Artist (1989). Dorthy Johnson. Jacques-Louis David: The Art of Metamorphosis; Princeton University Press, November (1993) Friedlander, W. F, From David to Delacroix, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, (1952) Rosenblum R., Transformations in Late Eighteenth Century Art, Princeton University Press (1967) L. Eitner, Neoclassicism and Romanticism, 1750-1850 Sources and Documents, Vol 1 Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1970