The Louvre celebrates the French master—who painted for Louis XVI before morphing into an ardent revolutionary and then a ...

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 publicly ...

85 x 132 cm. (33.5 x 52 in.) The present work depicts the death of Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger (c.4 BC-65 AD) as described by Tacitus in the Annals (XV, 60-64). Emperor Nero, who stands on the ...

The Met acquired it as a work by Jacques-Louis David. It was by a little-known woman. So much to love about this painting. The exquisitely simple white dress, for starters. (Who doesn’t love those ...